GERMANY

and the
holy roman
empire
Many people are aware of the atrocities
committed by Germany in World War ii, but
would consider them ancient history. These
people are completely unaware of the legacy
which Adolf Hitler drew upon in creating his
Nazi war machine. His was merely the latest
resurrec­tion of a war-making empire with a long
and bloody history. Did you know that the Bible
prophesied of his regime—as well as the terrible
emergence of one last resurrection in our day?
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Chapter One

The Resurgence of
Nazi Germany
H
ow could the appalling
evil and message of hate
inspired by Adolf Hitler
and the Nazi regime during
World War ii ever resurface in this
sophisti­cated age? World history and
Bible prophe­cy should strike us like a
bolt of light­ning with the proper answer
to that question! But man has not learned
history’s lesson, and Bible prophecy is
laughed to scorn.
Yet for those with an open mind,
history and prophecy reveal where this
modern-day resurgence of Ger­many
is leading. The spirit and mes­sage of
Hitler did not die when the war ended.
It lives on. And soon, its ugly head will
resurface to thrust this world into one
final all-out battle before Christ returns
(Matthew 24:21-22).
In 1941, before the war ended, German
author Emil Ludwig wrote a book titled
The Germans: Double History of a Nation.
Ludwig was not the least bit surprised
to find Ger­many leading nations into
another world­w ide conflagration. On
page 484, he wrote, “A nation that has
for a thousand years borne whatever
author­ity was imposed upon it, that never
fought of its own will for its freedom, that
quickly sought its way back under the
yoke when it attained freedom against
its will—the world ought to grasp that
this German nation as a whole shows no
inclina­tion to change. The first error to
which we succumbed when we be­lieved
after the [First] World War that a new
Germany was possible—that first error
should pro­tect us against a second.”
We should have learned our lesson
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 Before and after
After receiving one of the worst
beatings ever, Germany revived almost
overnight. Right: downtown Berlin.

from the First World War—the war that was

supposed to end all wars. But we didn’t. People
shunned Win­ston Churchill in the years
preceding World War ii, even calling him a
war­monger. Yet true to Churchill’s prediction,
the Nazi war machine set out to rule the world
and destroy any­t hing that happened to be
in its path. If not for Churchill’s unyielding
leader­ship, the Germans would have realized
their goal.
Did the Germans and the rest of man­k ind
finally learn the lesson?
Miracle of the 1950s
Herbert Armstrong described Germany’s devastating
destruction in 1944 and 1945 as “one of the worst beatings” ever
administered to any nation. “By the end of World War ii,” he
wrote, “all cities of over 50,000 popula­tion in Germany were
left in a heap of ruins, and also a great many smaller towns.
Every fourth house in all of Germany was smashed. Most
of the cities were 80 percent de­stroyed. Cologne and Essen
were 90 percent destroyed. Of 29 bridges span­ning the Rhine,
all were de­stroyed. The view of wreckage over all this major
nation was abso­lutely indescribable. People by hundreds of
thou­sands rendered homeless were dragging their weary feet
along clogged and crowded high­ways impeding traffic, other
thou­sands stomping across fields and sleeping in ditches.
The Ger­mans were defeated. War, this time, struck their own
Father­land” (Plain Truth, August 1959).
Western leaders from both sides of the Atlantic assured our
peoples that a demoralized Germany would never rise up to
strike again. In a signed document about American-British
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policy on Germany in Feb­r uary 1945, Franklin Roosevelt
and Winston Churchill said, “It is our inflexible purpose
to destroy German militar­ism and Nazism and to ensure
that Germany will never again be able to dis­turb the peace
of the world. We are determined to disarm and disband all
German armed forces, break up for all time the German
General Staff that has repeatedly contrived the resurgence of
German militarism; remove or destroy all German mili­tary
equipment; elimi­nate or control all German industry that
could be used for military production. … It is not our purpose
to destroy the people of Germany, but only when Nazism
and militarism have been extir­pated will there be hope
for a decent life for Germans and a place for them in the
community of nations.”
But while Washington and Lon­don were promising
that Germany would never again be able to strike, Herbert
Armstrong was preaching to the whole world that Germany
would rise again.
Notice what he said in a report he gave from the United
Nations on May 9, 1945: “The war is over, in Europe—or is
it? We need to wake up and realize that right now is the most
dangerous moment in United States national history, instead
of assuming we now have peace!
“Men plan, here, to preserve the peace of the world. What
most do not know is that the Germans have their plans for
winning the battle of the peace. Yes, I said battle of the
peace. That’s a kind of battle we Americans don’t know. We
know only one kind of war. We have never lost a war—that is, a
military war; but we have never won a conference, where leaders
of other nations outfox us in the battle for the peace.
“We don’t understand German thoroughness. From the very
start of World War ii, they have considered the possibility of
losing this second round, as they did the first—and they have
carefully, methodically planned, in such eventuality, the third
round—World War iii! Hitler has lost. This round of war, in
Europe, is over. And the Nazis have now gone under­ground. In
France and Norway they learned how effectively an organized
under­ground can hamper occupation and control of a
country. Paris was liber­ated by the French under­ground—and
Allied armies. Now a Nazi under­g round is methodically
planned. They plan to come back and to win on the third try”
(Autobiog­raphy of Herbert W. Armstrong, vol. 2, pp. 114-115).
He said that in 1945! But very few people really believed Mr. “It is our inflexible purpose to
Armstrong. Many, even today, ridicule his state­ments.
Brian Connell wrote Watcher on the Rhine in 1957 to report
destroy German militar­ism and
on the new Germany just 12 years after the war. “You have to Nazism and to ensure Germany will
look hard in Germany today,” he began his book, “for the visible
remnants of defeat. You have to look even harder if you remember never again be able to dis­turb the
the catalepsis of total surrender only a dozen years ago.”
Another historian described Germany’s astonishing
peace of the world.”
recovery after World War ii as the “miracle” of the ’50s. Mr. Winston Churchill, in a
Armstrong, who visited Germany in 1954 and 1956, witnessed signed document with Franklin
the miraculous turnaround firsthand. Roosevelt after World War ii.
When the West (led by the United States) started rebuilding
Germany, even Konrad Adenauer, the German leader after have been reappointed, representing roughly 60 percent of the
World War ii, said it was “taking a calculated risk.” He knew teaching staff employed by the Min­istry of Education. Sixty
his own people. He knew Nazism was not dead. It was never percent of the 15,000 employees in the Finance Ministry are
destroyed; it just went under­ground. former Nazis, and 81 percent of the 924 judges, magistrates
and prosecutors in the Ministry of Justice” (p. 107).
Nazism Did Not Die To make matters worse, just four years after the Allies
In his book, Brian Connell sums up the ridicu­lous situa­tion that handed the denazification process over to the Germans, “The
devel­oped after World War ii. He wrote that in the spring of German government declared officially that the denazifica­tion
1947, “The vexed problem of denazi­fication, which had been procedure had been terminated” (ibid.). So much for cleansing
handled up to that time by the Allied authorities, was handed itself of the Nazi virus!
over to the Germans” (p. 37). Just two years after their defeat, the Public opinion after the war indicated that Nazism was still
Germans were actu­ally told to denazify them­selves! in full force. Roger Eatwell referred to these revealing opinion
Later, using Bavaria as just one exam­ple, Connell called polls in his book, Fascism: “Although only about 10-15 percent of
the German denazification effort a farce, saying the “Bavarian the population were classi­fied as hard-core Nazi, the researchers
administration is largely in the hands of those who controlled found that there was a strong, lingering sense of racism. In 1946,
it under Hitler.” Connell’s research substantiated the claim: 48 percent of Germans thought that some races were more fitted
“Statistics show that 20,682 of the 49,445 civil servants belonged to rule than others; even more remarkably in 1949, 59 percent
to the Nazi Party or its affiliates. A total of 14,443 of these were willing to say that Nazism was a good idea badly carried
were dismissed and later reinstated in the service. Almost all out…. Few claimed to have been opponents of the regime.”
of the 11,000 teachers who were removed for politi­cal reasons Several other historical documents released in the past few
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years add to Connell’s evidence that the Germans failed to
denazify them­selves. In 1991, Mark Aarons and John Loftus
released a book titled Unholy Trinity which told the story of how
Vatican-spon­sored underground networks illegally smuggled
Nazi leaders out of the country after the war. Aarons and
Lof­tus based their findings on newly released U.S. intelligence
documents that had been classified for almost 50 years.
In 1996, another shocking intelli­gence document was
released to the public. It revealed that when Nazi leaders
realized they were losing the war in 1944, they met with top
Ger­man industrialists to seek financing for the under­ground
Nazi party “so that a strong German empire can be created
after the defeat.” This intelligence document, which should
have sent shock waves through every newsroom in the world,
received only sparse coverage.
And in 1997, Martin Lee, in his fascinating book, The
Beast Reawak­ens, revealed that “there had never really been
a clean break from the Nazi past, given that the original
leadership of the West German Bundeswehr was recruited
directly from the upper echelons of Hitler’s army. (Only three
out of 217 Bundeswehr gener­a ls in 1976 were not Third Reich
vet­erans, and 37 military bases in the Bonn Republic were
named after soldiers who made their reputa­tions during the
Hitler years” (p. 286).
From these documented facts and from what we see in
Germany today, there are two overriding themes we ought to
let sink into our minds. First, the almost overnight transfor­
mation of Germany from a devastated nation sifting through
rubble and ashes to one of the most dominant and powerful
nations in the world is nothing short of miraculous!
Second, and equally mirac­u lous, is the relative ease at
which prominent Nazi leaders were either carted away to
safety through vast underground networks or else admitted
into the same positions they held during Hitler’s regime!
The Wall Comes Down
Ever since the Communist stran­glehold on Eastern Europe
loosened, and then finally let go during the late ’80s and early
’90s, fascists have been clamoring to fill the power vacuum.
Nothing hastened this power change­over more than when the
Berlin Wall fell on Novem­ber 9, 1989, exact­ly 66 years after
Hitler was arrested for his famous beer hall putsch. Almost
overnight, a neo-Nazi revival was underway in the Fatherland.
They had been dwelling underground long enough. The Beast
Reawakens, as the title plainly sug­gests, reveals the insidious
details of this sinister revival.
The chronology of events, cou­pled with some alarming
statistics since the wall came down in 1989, should serve as
warning enough that Nazi Germany is storming back, and
with a vengeance.
From 1990 to 1991, the number of organized right-wing
extremists jumped from 32,000 to 40,000. Not surprisingly, the
number of violent racist incidents also increased in 1991. There
were 1483 of these violent incidents recorded that year—ten
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times more than in 1990. Even more fright­ening are the surveys
indicating 50 to 60 percent of the police in some areas sympa­
thize with the Nazi cause! In preventing racial hate crimes, law
enforce­ment, in some areas, was at best half-hearted.
By 1991, German officials admit­ted they had seriously
under­estimated the Nazi movement.
The situation worsened in 1992, when it was estimated that
the number of organized, right-wing extremists exceeded
65,000. There were over 2,100 violent racial incidents in which
17 people were killed. Explosions and fire bombings were up 33
percent over 1991. By this time, observers outside of Germany
were beginning to take notice. “The situation had deteriorated
to the point,” Martin Lee wrote, “where for the first time since
World War ii, immigrants began to flee Germany to hoped-for
safe havens in other coun­tries” (ibid., p. 269).
One particularly frightening inci­dent occurred in 1992 in
the small Baltic seaport of Rostock, located about 100 miles
north of Berlin. “In a scene starkly reminiscent of the 1930s,
thou­sands of local residents roared approv­ingly as a throng of
neo-Nazis attacked a refugee center for Romani­an Gyp­sies”
(p. 273). The Nazis ended up torching that shelter and another
near­by hostel while local police stood by and watched. One
officer later admit­ted, “The police had an arrange­ment with
the rowdies not to intervene.”
Even more disturbing was the admission of govern­ment
authorities in the state of Mecklenberg that they were aware
of neo-Nazi plans to “clean up” Rostock before the torch­ings
occurred. But due to a “shortage of manpower,” they were unable
to send in heavily armed riot police. They were able, however,
to show up days later when more than 1000 people, many of
them immigrants, turned out to protest the Nazi attacks.
Yet the most shocking event to come out of the week-long
hostilities occurred toward the end, when “the German govern­
ment caved in to the neo-Nazi mob by ordering all refugees
out of Rostock. Henceforth, this eco­nomically depressed city
of 250,000 would be foreigner-free, just like Hoyerswerda and
several other ethni­cally cleansed redoubts in the Father­land.
Next came an official announce­ment that close to 100,000
Gypsies would soon be deported to Romania and other parts
of Eastern Europe” (ibid., pp. 274-275).
Hoping to stamp out the fiery racial tensions, the
government’s decision to deport immigrants only added fuel
to the fire. Emboldened by their victory in Rostock, a new wave
of neo-Nazi violence and attacks on foreigners spread into 100
different cities over the next two weeks. As German news­papers
splashed startling headlines across the nation, some observers
had to ask themselves, “Could it happen again?”
Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s administration, after dawdling
for months, finally appeared to clamp down on right-wing
extremism in early 1993 when it out­lawed certain groups. But
it amounted to little more than a slap on the wrist.
That very year, on May 27, the Bundestag buckled under
to further neo-Nazi demands when it passed the asylum law,
which set firm restric­tions on immigrants seeking asylum

in Ger­many. The United Nations and various human rights
groups vehemently denounced the law.
Government action like that above confirmed what many
outsiders already suspected: that the influence of right-wing
extremism was penetrating even the moderate political parties
like Kohl’s Social Democrats.
Something dark and sinister was brewing in the Fatherland.
The wave of neo-Nazi violence in 1991 and 1992 frightened
German immigrants and alerted the world to the fact that
Nazism was not dead, at least not within right-wing circles.
But there were rumblings of far greater serious­ness unfolding
within the highest levels of the German government.
Blatant Fascist Reminders
In the early 1990s, right-wing parties like the Rupubli­kaner
and Deutsche Volks­union began enjoying greater success
at the ballot box. Opinion polls at the time explained why.
In 1990, just months after the wall came down, one survey
revealed that more than a third of Germans from the east
and west felt they “need not be ashamed of the legacy of
German fascism.”
In 1991, the German news maga­zine Der Spiegel polled
readers and found that 62 percent felt it better not to “talk so
Back to Berlin
After a vote to move the German capital
from Bonn to Berlin, crews began renovating
the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler’s seat of hate.
much about the persecution of the Jews.” The following year,
36 percent of Germans surveyed agreed that “Jews have too
much influence in the world.” Another survey found that one
fourth of German schoolchildren felt that Jewish Holocaust
stories were “greatly exaggerated.”
Not surprisingly, right-wingers were finding it easier to
attract larger audiences. No doubt, these poll indicators have
had an effect on the Social Demo­crats. In June of 1991, the
Bundestag voted to move their capitol from Bonn back to
imperial Berlin, headquarters of the Second and Third Reich.
The Reichstag, Adolf Hitler’s seat of hate, was completely
reno­vated in anticipation of the move.
Two months later, on August 17, the remains of Frederick
the Great were buried at the Sans Souci Palace in what used
to be East Ger­many. Frederick ruled the Prussian Empire
from 1740 to 1786. Protected in West Germany until the wall
came down, Frederick’s bones were buried in their original
resting place outside of Pots­dam. Chancellor Kohl, along with
200 other dignitaries and 80,000 others, came to pay their
respects. The event was broadcast live on German tele­vision.
“Some felt that this officially sanctioned display of necrolatry
[worship of the dead] would send the wrong message to neo-
Nazis and other right-wing extremists. Within these circles,
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 Emperor Freder­ick was vener­ated as a cult figure because of
his martial accomplish­ments. He often invaded foreign lands
and boasted of gobbling up Polish Silesia ‘like an artichoke’”
(The Beast Reawakens, pp. 282-283).
Hitler stood at the foot of Freder­ick’s grave in 1933 to proclaim
the begin­ning of the Third Reich!
At a time when Germany was experi­encing its worst
outbreak of Nazi violence since World War ii, Kohl’s
administration seemed more than willing to fan the flames
of right-wing extremism!
In December of that same year, Germany decided to
recognize break­away Yugoslav republics Sloven­ia and Croatia
despite stiff opposition from the EU, the U.S. and the United
Nations, and despite the fact that the move again resurrected
unsavory memories of Germany’s fascist past.
The EU eventually recognized the two states a month later.
The UN also backed away from a direct confronta­tion with Kohl.
And the U.S., which at first blamed the Germans for provok­ing
the Balkan crisis by recognizing the two breakaway states,
eventually flip-flopped to support Ger­many’s decision! (Write
for our booklet The Rising Beast for more information.)
It seemed no one was interested in meeting the Germans
head-on. It gives you an idea of how quickly after the Berlin
Wall fell, only two years, that Ger­many ascended to world
domi­nance—marching to its own drum, with little concern
for world opinion.
Yugoslavia had existed as one unified country since 1919,
with the exception of one particularly deadly interlude: when
Hitler made Croatia his own puppet state during World War ii.
Back in action
Volker Rühe inspects
German troops stationed
in Sarajevo.
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Dirty Laundry in
the German Army
N
eo-Nazi related incidents in Germany have multip­ lied
so much in recent years that most crimes no longer
warrant much press coverage in the Fatherland. It
appears that racial hate stories are now old news. Like “soft”
pornog­raphy, off-color language or gratuitous violence, the
more we are around it, the less we are shocked—that is, unless
something far worse grabs our atten­tion. What will it take for
this world, especially those nations that nearly surrendered to
the Nazi regime in World War II, to wake up to the frightening
stew of racial hate stirring in Central Europe?
Nazism did not die when Hitler’s forces were crushed—it
merely went under­ground. A host of surveys, vio­lent incidents,
and even recent German govern­ment policies confirm it.
When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, the signal to all
underground fascists could not have been more clear. It was
time to resurface. At first, hate crimes were sporadic and
unrelated. But each “success” converted more adherents to
right-wing doctrine. Soon, surveys revealed that many German
citizens even sym­pathized with certain Nazi views. In fact, in
1997, a Euro­pean survey revealed that 34 percent of Germans
consider them­selves “quite racist” or “very racist.”
In recent years, far-right views have wedged their way into
the highest levels of German government. Recently, another
sector within the German sphere has been tainted by Nazi
influence—the Bundeswehr, or the German Army.
Fascist Memories in the Balkans
In December 1991, just two years after the Berlin Wall collapsed,
with complete disregard for strong world opinion and for the fate
of the Serbs, Germany adamantly declared full support for the
secession of Slo­venia and Croatia from the republic of Yugoslavia.
A violent civil war erupted in Yugoslavia thereafter.
The war in Yugoslavia signaled a new era in the German
Army, which had been dormant since World War II. Between
1992 and 1994, the Germans exported more than $320 million
worth of military hard­ware to Croatia. In 1995, Germany agreed
to send military transport planes, medical personnel, and other
support to the Balkan combat zone. At that time, however, they
would not send ground troops. “This would render us part of
the prob­lem rather than its solution,” admitted Volker Rühe,
the German defense minister. (Over 700,000 Serbs were mas-
sacred during World War II by the Nazi regime which absorbed
Slovenia into the Third Reich and created a puppet state in
Croatia.) Obviously, Germany knew that any show of force in
the Balkans would make the Serbs extremely nervous.
Yet in 1995, not long after Rühe’s state­ment, Germany
com­mitted 4,000 troops inside Croatia to help enforce the
so-called peace agree­ment. It was their first troop deploy­ment
outside Germany since World War II.
At first, Germany’s extended effort in the Balkans seemed
noble. But it wasn’t long before disturbing reports surfaced,
including one where German soldiers in Croatia were heard
chanting “Sieg Heil” and “Heil Hitler.”
Even more unsettling was a video discovered in 1997. In
it, soldiers who were training for their mission in the Balkans
acted out executions and rapes. The question is, how many
soldiers were involved and how many officers knew about
it? The German defense minister and Chancellor Kohl both
insisted that these were only isolated incidents, which is the
same argument they used for other such reports.
A Nazi Rally—in the Bundeswehr?
Manfred Roeder is a convicted Nazi terrorist. In 1973, he
wrote the foreword in the book Auschwitz Lie. He set up a
terrorist group which was linked to several bomb­ings in 1980,
including an Italian train station and a Jewish synagogue in
Paris. In 1981, he was convicted for killing two Vietna­mese
immigrants in Ger­many with a fire bomb. The following year, he
was sentenced to 13 years in prison. After his early release in
1990, he again joined extreme right-wing organizations. Roeder
has been linked to a bevy of right-wing activity for nearly 30
years. German intelligence even lists him as a terrorist!
So why was this convicted neo-Nazi bomber invited to speak
to new recruits at an elite officers academy for the Bundeswehr?
Good question. Roeder’s address to the Bundeswehr in May
1995 only became public knowl­edge in 1997. He spoke about
“ethnic German” Russians residing in Kalinin­grad—a Russian
city on the banks of the Baltic. (German nationalists would
like to see the region absorbed into the Fatherland.)
In addition to the speech invita­tion, Roeder says the
German defense ministry donated a small amount of cash,
vehicles, and other tools to his organization in 1993. The whole
inci­dent has been quite embar­rassing for German officials.
They suspended the officer in charge of the academy and
denied any involvement in the decision-making leading up
to the invite. Another “isolated incident.”
The “isolated incidents” have been popping up regularly
in the Bundeswehr for several years now. There were 72
right-wing incidents in the German Army in 1996. This number
had climbed to 135 in 1999 and jumped to 196 in 2000. One
particular outrage occurred in the small German town of
Detmold. Uniformed German soldiers, while shouting “Wogs
out of Germany,” attacked two Turkish immi­grants and a
16-year-old Italian boy with baseball bats and knives.
In 1997, the Sunday Telegraph in London quoted Helmuth
Priess, a retired lieutenant-colonel in the German Army. Priess
claims that there are far too many officers in the Army with
right-wing sym­pathies. He recalled one incident where a
com­manding officer told him to stress the importance of a
fami­liar Nazi motto: “Work makes you free” (a sign bear­ing
that inscription hung above the en­trance to Auschwitz).
Priess was shocked to hear such admonition—and from a
high-ranking officer! He was later startled when he heard the
officer became a general.
More recently, 21-year-old Chris­tian Krause, the son of
a former German minister, told the German newspaper Bild
am Sonntag that he had encountered numerous right-wing
extremists during his ten-month stint in the army. According
to Krause, at his base there were two or three right-wing
incidents a month. At parties, “There were always toasts
made to the führer and after drinking alcohol many officers
would give each other the Hitler salute.…”
German officials continue to downplay neo-Nazi-related
activities within the Bundeswehr. But how much longer can they
keep saying that such events are only “isolated” cases—especially
when statistics reveal an upward trend in violent incidents?
Time Will Tell
A document which circu­lates among right-wing circles
admonish­es con­verts, for now, to lay low. It says, “They
should not even identify them­selves as nationalists. They
should join the army and the police and see to it that they
acquire specialized knowl­edge and abilities.”
Time will tell if there are thousands more in the Bundeswehr
with right-wing sympathies who have, until now, kept a low
profile. In the meantime, the number of violent incidents
within the Bundeswehr continues to escalate. As that number
increases, and as people become more used to it, stories
about Nazis infiltra­ting the German Army will soon drift further
to the back of many papers before they eventually disappear.
The stories may disappear, but the Nazis will not.
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“You have not anchored Germany to
Europe; you have anchored Europe to
a newly dominant, unified Germany.
In the end, my friends, you’ll find it
will not work.”
Margaret Thatcher, in a speech
in Colorado Springs, Colorado,
in October 1995.
Over 700,000 Serbs were slaugh­tered by the Croats during
the war, which is why Serbia was more than uneasy about
Germany’s snuggle-up to Croatia.
Then-Croatian President Franjo Tudj­man refused to disas-
sociate him­self from his country’s fascist roots. Yet his shocking
stance did not dis­suade Germany from pledging its full support.
According to Martin Lee, the Germans exported over $320
million worth of military hardware to Croatia between 1992
and 1994. And in 1995, for the first time since World War ii,
Germany committed 4,000 troops beyond its borders—inside
Croatia, to enforce the tenuous peace agreement.
Since the wall fell in 1989, the world has not only witnessed
an alarming upsurge in neo-Nazi vio­lence, we have witnessed
the escalat­ing spirit of independence and arro­gance within
the German nation as a whole. Ger­many has rapidly risen to
the ranks of a bona fide world power.
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Today, Germany is second only to the United States in arms
exports. It has a standing army of about 300,000, the largest
in Europe. It has pushed itself to the forefront of influence
in the European Union, which is increasing in presence and
respectability on the world scene politically, economically
and militarily. With France’s help, Germany will soon, very
likely, be recognized as a major nuclear power. Add to that
the great financial sword Germany is wielding, and you have
the makings of a world force to be reckoned with.
The world, especially Europe, is growing increas­ingly
uneasy with the prospect of being dominated by a nation
histori­cally prone to bully its neighbors and to acquire a
sizable appetite for more living space.
Modern-Day Jeremiahs
For several decades God’s Church has been warning of the
emergence of Germany as the most dominant player in a European
Union of nations. The Bible teaches that this force will suddenly
catapult the world into the third and final world war.
Yet, even if we set aside Bible prophecy for a moment, there
are more than enough modern-day Jeremiahs warning about
Germany’s developing links with its fascist past. We have quoted
one of these modern writers, Martin Lee, in this chapter. In his
words, “Something awful was laid bare by the fall of the Berlin
Wall. The fascist beast had reawak­ened and was on the prowl
again.” Other well-known books, like Roger Eatwell’s Fascism,
Bernard Connolly’s The Rotten Heart of Europe, and Margaret
Thatcher’s The Downing Street Years, all serve as Churchillian
warnings for a world that has proven itself prone to slumber as
events grow worse. Most of the mainstream press is oblivious to
the dangerous, foreboding presence developing on the horizon in
Central Europe. That’s the way it was before World War ii.
We must wake up and heed the words of this handful of
informed and astute political analysts. “You have not anchored
Germany to Europe,” Mar­garet Thatcher said in 1995. “You
have anchored Europe to a newly dominant, unified Germany.
In the end, my friends, you’ll find it will not work.” It is
Germany’s national character to dominate, she said.
While Germany lay in ruin and ashes after World War ii,
Herbert W. Armstrong had the crystal-clear, pro­phetic vision to
see a Germany that would again rise to world dominance. He knew
the Nazis were not elimi­nated altogether. They only hid themselves,
like cockroaches when the kitchen light is switched on.
With the implosion of the former Soviet Union and the
gigantic power vacuum it left in the heart of Europe, we
have seen Mr. Arm­strong’s stun­ning predictions unfold with
uncanny preciseness. A few observers are alert to the grave
danger set before us. Are you?
Let us now consider where these events inside Germany fit
within the framework of biblical history and prophecy.
Chapter two
Germany’s Earliest Roots
C
ould the German Reich, the oldest political
institution in Europe, which ruled the Continent
as the Holy Roman Empire for a thousand years
and almost gained control of the whole world
in two wars in the 20th cen­tury—could a people with a role in
human affairs that large be completely ignored in the Bible?
That’s what some scholars would have you believe.
The Bible does not mention the word Germany, and for
good rea­son: They did not acquire that name until the Romans
collectively labeled them Germani almost 2,000 years ago. In
fact, the Germans refer to them­selves as Deutsch, not German.
They call their beloved country Deutsch­land. If we are to find
the German people mentioned in the Bible, it must be under
some name other than what the Romans labeled them.
In this chapter, we will prove from the Bible and other
historical sources that modern-day Germany descended
from the ancient Assyrians. Certainly, the Bible is the greatest
his­torical source of all. In fact, it is the only complete historical
source we have concerning the civilization of man. And once
you prove who the ancient Assyrians are today, it will suddenly
open your eyes to dozens and dozens of
end-time Bible prophe­cies con­cerning
those people.
One third of the Bible is proph­ecy,
most of which is for our day. And you
can be sure that Assyria is men­tioned
in numerous Bible prophecies.
But much of the Bible is also history.
Bible history says much about the begin-
ning and development of the nation
of Assyria. Together, Bible history and
prophecy outline the complete story of the
German people from beginning to end.
The Assyrian Empire Begins
For those who scoff at the pros­pect of
the German people moving from the
upper regions of the Mes­opotamia
Valley into Central Europe, con­sider
this undeniable fact: all of mankind,
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at one point or another, has descend­ed from that very cradle
of civilization—the Mesopotamia Valley! That is where
civilization began after the flood waters receded in Noah’s
day. “And the ark rested … upon the moun­tains of Ararat”
(Genesis 8:4). Ararat is just north of the Mesopo­tamian Valley
(the eastern part of modern-day Turkey).
As Noah’s family multiplied exceedingly, many migrated
down from the mountains of Ararat to a plain in the land of
Shinar, or Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq). Genesis 10 gives
a brief account of this occurrence, mainly listing the lineages
of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. But God does draw
spe­cial attention to Nimrod, grandson of Ham, the father
of the black races. Nimrod means “he rebelled”—against
Language of
the Assyrians
S
ome have argued that the Assyri­a n people
spoke a Semitic language, not Indo-Germanic,
and therefore the Ger­mans could not be the
descen­dants of the ancient Assyrians.
Yet there is a passage in the Bible which clearly
reveals how and why most of the ancient Assyrians
acquired a new and different language.
In the days of Nimrod, a tower was constructed at
Babel which was to be the capital city of a world-ruling
dictatorship, under which God’s truth would have been
completely stamped out. Concerning the rebellious
people of Nimrod’s day, God said, “Behold, the people is
one, and they have all one language; and this they begin
to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them,
which they have imagined to do” (Genesis 11:6).
To keep civilization from progressing to a point of
self-destruction so soon, God had to “confound their
language” (verse 7). This miraculous intervention by
God was the origin of differing languages. This was
when most of the Assyrians acquired the Indo-Germanic
tongue and other related languages.
Dr. Herman Hoeh wrote, in his article “Germany
in Prophecy!”, “Euro­pean scholars have thor­oughly
studied the language of the land of Hatti—the ancestors
of the Hessians. They found it to be an Indo-Germanic
tongue—numer­ous words of which were akin to Old
High German! ... The lan­guage of the Hatti was the
lan­guage of the West Assyrians.... Scholars admit that
for centuries the language of the people who inhabited
Assyria was not merely Semitic” (Plain Truth, Jan.
1963, p. 27).
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God, that is. Nimrod estab­lished the kingdom of Baby­lon.
Bab­ylon means confu­sion, which is what happened when God
confounded their language at the tower of Babel. Reading
these early accounts of civilization clearly reveals that God
names things for what they are!
Aside from Nimrod, Genesis 10 also draws special attention
to Asshur. “Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded
Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah” (verse 11). As
the margin suggests, a better translation of this verse reveals
that Asshur and Nimrod went out of the land of Shinar to
build Nineveh and other cities. There is strong evidence to
indicate that Asshur worked with Nimrod, probably in the
military field, and helped to build Babel and Nine­veh, as
well as other cities.
Now notice verse 22: “The chil­dren of Shem; Elam, and
Asshur, and Arphax­ad, and Lud, and Aram.” Asshur was a
son of Shem, the father of the white racial strain—those of fair
skin and lighter hair. Notice that Arphaxad is listed in this
verse as the third son of Shem. Now read Genesis 11:10: “These
are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old,
and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood.” Neither of
Shem’s first two sons, Elam or Asshur, are mentioned! That’s
because they were rejected as the heirs of Shem’s inheri­tance.
If they were working along­side Nimrod, you can see why Shem
(and God) rejected them! Asshur parted with his father and
became the progenitor of the Assyrian people.
Over 300 years later, Abraham, through whom God was
to raise up His chosen nation Israel, was begotten of the line
of Arphaxad, the third son of Shem.
It is significant that Asshur, father of the Assyrians, and
Arphaxad, whose line Abraham descended from, both
came from Shem. This means that while there may be some
distinguish­able physical differences between the Assyrians
and Israelites, both peoples came from the fair-skinned, white
racial strain of Shem. More on this later.
But first, let us consider this early beginning of the Assyrian
people. We have already uncovered much, just from a few
Bible verses. Notice what the historian Josephus recorded
con­cerning Asshur: “Shem, the third son of Noah, had five
sons…. Ashur lived at the city of Nieve; and named his subjects
Assyrians, who became the most fortunate nation,
beyond others” (Antiqui­ties, i, vi, 4). Assyria quickly became
the most prosperous, powerful nation of the day.
Abraham Defeats the Assyrians
By the time Abraham was grow­ing up, Assyria was already
a powerful world empire. God brought Abraham, along
with his nephew Lot, into the land of Canaan and show­ered
a multitude of wealth and pros­perity on their people. It was
only a matter of time before they were to be confronted by
the mighty Assyrians.
Let’s pick up the story in Genesis 14:1-2: “And it came to pass
in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar,
Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations; That
these made war….” These four kings were allied as a gigantic
Assyrian empire, as Josephus points out: “At this time, when
the Assyrians had the dominion over Asia, the people of Sodom
were in a flourishing condi­tion … the Assyri­ans made war upon
them; and, divid­ing their army into four parts, fought against
them. Now every part of the army had its own commander
… Amra­phel, Arioch, Chodorlaomer and Tidal. These kings
had laid waste all Syria, and over­thrown the offspring of the
giants” (Antiquities, i, ix, 1). Josephus confirms that the four
kings mentioned in Genesis 14 were in fact Assyrian.
Concerning Genesis 14:1, Lange’s Commentary says,
“According to Ktesias and others, the Assyrians were the first
to establish a world-domin­ion” (vol. 1, p. 403).
The last king listed in Genesis 14:1 is Tidal, the “king of
nations.” He ruled in the region of Asia Minor. The name
Tidal comes from a Hebrew word which means “to fear, make
afraid, dreadful and terrible.” For cen­turies, Assyria caused
many nations great fear!
These four Assyrian generals came to make war with the
kings in Canaan (verses 2‑4). The Assyrians routed the people
of Canaan, including the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. And
in taking captives, they captured Abraham’s wealthy nephew,
Lot (verses 11-12). “And when Abram heard that his brother
was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his
own house, three hundred and eigh­teen, and pursued them
unto Dan. And he divided himself against them, he and his
Ancient City
of Trier
O
n the banks of the Mosel River in western Ger­many,
just six miles from the Luxembourg border, is the
ancient German city of Trier. The Romans claim to
be the founders of this ancient city. But German tradition, and
even the name of the city, suggests otherwise.
“On das Rotes Haus (the Red House) beside the Steipe,
there is a text in Latin boast­ing that Trier, or Treves, is older
than Rome, 1300 years older in fact. That is when Trebeta,
son of Semiramis, is said to have found­ed the town.” That’s
what it says in the opening para­graph of the Trier Colorphoto
Guide to the Town.
Josef K.L. Bihl writes in his Ger­man textbook, In Deutschen
Landen, “Trier was founded by Trebeta, a son of the famous
Assyrian King Ninus” (p. 69). Ninus, according to Roman, Greek
and Persian records, was the first ruler who began the systematic
conquest of the ancient world after the death of Nimrod.
Semiramis was married to Nim­rod, the founder of Baby­lon
(Genesis 10:8-10). Verse 11 says that Asshur and his descen­
dants went out of Babylon and con­structed the Assyrian
capital—Nineveh. But as the margin correctly indicates, it
was Nimrod who led Asshur out of Babylon and who actually
supervised the construction project in Nineveh. Early on, the
Bible indicates a close alliance between Nimrod and Asshur.
There is an obvious rea­son why the German city of
Trier traces its origins back to Trebeta, the son of Nimrod's
successor, Ninus, as well as the ancient Assyrian capital of
Nineveh. It’s because modern-day Germany is mostly made
up of Assyrian people!
Monument of history
The Red House in Trier; inset: a sign in
German stating the age of the building.
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servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto
Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damas­cus” (verses 14-15).
Josephus records that Abram and his men “marched hastily,
and the fifth night fell upon the Assyrians, near Dan…and
before they could arm themselves, he slew some as they were
in their beds, before they could suspect any harm; and others,
who were not yet gone to sleep, but were so drunk they could
not fight, ran away” (Antiquities, i, x, 1).
Genesis 14:17 says that Abram also killed the four top leaders
of the Assyrian empire, mentioned in verse 1. It was a complete
rout. The power of Assyria was smashed in one night. The course
of history was changed. Abraham and his descendants were able
to continue living peacefully in the land of Canaan free from
Assyrian aggression. And Egypt, with­out the Assyrian threat,
grew into one of the leading nations in the ancient world. God
wanted Egypt to dominate the Middle East, not Assyria. Egypt,
though the people didn’t know it at the time, was preparing for
the arrival of Joseph and the children of Israel.
For the next 1200 years, the Bible says little about Assyria.
But they did not disappear. Their resur­gence around 700 b.c.,
once again as a world power, proved to be yet another thorn
in the Israelites’ side.
Fierce Assyrians
Virtually every historian draws attention to the war-like nature
of the Assyrian people. James McCabe, author of History
of the World, says the Assyrians were a “fierce, treacher­ous
race, delighting in the dangers of the chase and in war. The
Assyrian troops were notably among the most formidable of
ancient warriors…. They never kept faith when it was to their
interest to break treaties, and were regarded with suspicion
by their neighbors in consequence of this characteristic…. In
organization and equipment of their troops, and in their system
of attack and defense and their method of reducing fortified
places, the Assyrians manifested a superiority to the nations
by which they were surrounded” (vol. 1, pp. 155, 160).
Dr. Herman Hoeh, historian and author of Compen­dium
of World History, wrote, “Ancient Assyria was the greatest
war-making power in all history” (Plain Truth, Jan. 1963,
“Germany in Prophecy!”).
James Hastings wrote, “The Assyrians of historic times
were more robust, warlike, ‘fierce,’ than the mild industrial
Babylonians. This may have been due to the influence of climate
and incessant warfare; but it may indicate a different race….
The whole organization of the State was essential­ly military”
(“Assyria and Babylonia,” Dictionary of the Bible).
Leonard Catrell, in Anvil of Civili­zation, wrote: “In all the
annals of human conquest, it is difficult to find any people
more dedicated to blood­shed and slaughter than the Assyrians.
Their ferocity and cruelty have few parallels save in modern
times.” It’s interesting that Catrell can only com­pare their
ferocity with those “in modern times.” In the 20th century,
many would admit that the Germans have indeed been
dedicated to much blood­shed.
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After 800 b.c., Assyria was poised and ready to take the
world by storm. Their resurgence would soon clash head-on
with the powerful Israelites.
In his Compendium, Dr. Hoeh wrote, “In 745 a new dynasty
sat upon the Assyrian throne in Nineveh. It commenced
with Tiglath-pileser iii. This dynasty existed to the collapse
of Assyria in 612” (vol. 1, p. 296).
The Encyclopedia Britannica concurs with Dr. Hoeh’s
synopsis: “Under Tiglath-pileser iii arose the second Assyrian
empire, which dif­fered from the first in its greater con­solidation.
For the first time in history the idea of centralization was
intro­duced into politics .… The Assyri­a n forces became
a standing army, which, by successive improvements and
care­f ul discipline, was molded into an irresistible fighting
machine, and Assyrian policy was directed towards the
definite object of reducing the whole civilized world
into a single empire and thereby throwing its trade and
wealth into Assyrian hands” (“Babylonia and Assyria,” 11th
ed.). By now, you should be noticing some definite similarities
between ancient Assyria and the modern-day Germany which
has thrust this world into two great wars, endeavoring to
create one single empire. More on that later.
Israel Taken Into Assyrian Captivity
Let us continue with Assyria’s documented history within the
upper Mesopotamian region. In 2 Kings 16, you will read of a war
between Israel and the Jews. By this time, the children of Israel
had divided into two nations, the northern ten tribes keeping
the name Israel, the southern tribes taking on the name Judah.
Israel was allied with Aram (Syria). Judah solicited the help of
Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria (2 Kings 16:7). In defense of the
Jews, the Assyrians attacked Aram first and Israel later.
In his 14th year of rule, Shalma­neser iii, Assyrian king at
Calah, besieged the land of Samaria, where the ten tribes of Israel
resided. The year was 721 b.c. Notice ii Kings 17:5-6: “Then the
king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up
to Samaria, and besieged it three years [721-718]. In the ninth
year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried
Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in
Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.”
Despite numerous warnings from their prophets, the people
of Israel refused to turn from their rebellion against God. It was
God who sent the Assyrians as the rod of His anger to take the
Israelites into captiv­ity (Isaiah 10:5). They were removed out
of their land. “For the children of Israel walked in all the sins
of Jero­boam which he did; they departed not from them; Until
the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all
his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of
their own land to Assyria unto this day” (verses 22-23).
Josephus records that Shalma­neser “made an expedi­tion
against Samaria … besieged [it] three years and took it
by force … and quite demolished the government of the
Israelites, and transplanted all the people into Media and
Persia” (Antiquities, ix, xiv, 1).
The Ancient Tribe
of Chatti
T
he name Chatti, or Hatti as it sometimes reads, in
Hebrew means to break down by violence or confu­sion;
to abolish, make afraid, scare or terrify. Chatti is a
derivative of the Heb­rew word for Hittite, Chittiy—men­tioned
numerous times in the Bible. The Canaanite Hittites—a fierce
people who continually clashed with the Israelites in biblical
accounts—were known by this name. They were descendants
of Ham—those of a darker-colored skin.
Yet there was another people, with much lighter skin, who were
also known by this name, Chatti or Hatti: the Assyrians! Historians
recognize that there were two distinct peoples which went by
the name of Chatti, or Hittite, as it reads in the Bible.
James Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible, written in 1899,
refers to the northern “kings of the Hittites” mentioned in
1 Kings 10:29, and then comments, “Besides the northern
Hittites, other Hittites, or ‘sons of Heth,’ are men­tioned in
the [Old Testament] as inhabiting the south of Palestine”
(“Hittites,” vol. 2). These sons of Heth are the Canaanite
Hittites of the line of Ham (see Genesis 10:15). Abraham asked
these people for a burial place for Sarah in Genesis 23.
But what about these northern Hittites? Hastings refers to
1 Kings 10:29 where Solomon obtained war forces through
trade with the “kings of the Hittites.” But these are not the
same sons of Heth mentioned in Genesis 23. Notice the
explanation for 1 Kings 10:29 in Lange’s Commen­tary: “The
Hittites are not the same as those named in chap. 9:20, but
were an independent tribe, probably in the neighborhood
of Syria [biblical Assyria was just north of Syria], as 2 Kings
7:6 mentions them as in alliance with the Syrians” (vol. 3, p.
123 of 1 Kings).
Dr. Herman Hoeh adds further insight about this verse in
1 Kings: “The Assyrian Hessians were called ‘kings of the
Hittites’ because the Canaanite Hittites, driven out by Josh­ua,
migrated into Asia Minor where the Assyrians dwelt” (Plain
Truth, Jan. 1969, “Germany in Prophecy!”).
It was the Assyrians who labeled many of their own people
in the west­ern part of their empire as Hittites, or Chatti, as the
Hebrew reads. Hastings con­firms this: “The Assyrians … caused
the name of ‘Hittite’ in the Assyrian peri­od to be applied to all
the nations west of the Euphrates.” He went on to say that Hittite
proper names can be traced far to the west in Asia Minor.
Virtually all historical authorities recognize that there were
two different peoples that took on the name Hittite, or Chatti.
The Encyclopedia Britan­nica acknowledges this phenomenon:
“The identification of the northern and southern Hittites,
however, presents certain difficulties not yet fully explained;
and it seems that we must assume Heth to have been the name
of both a country … and of a tribal popula­tion not confined to
that coun­try” (“Hittites,” 11th ed., vol. 13). How clear! There was
a nation of peo­ple, known as Hittites, sons of Heth, who were
great warriors. But there was also a tribal population which
acquired this name because they too were a fierce people
that scared and terrified other nations, which is what Hittite
means. These were known as the Assyrian Hittites.
Concerning the Canaanite Hittites, Dr. Hoeh suggests that
after Alexander the Great conquered Asia, they too migrated
northwest into Europe, “and then, across the Atlantic to North
America where the colonists rediscov­ered them as the Chatti
Indians of the Central Plains.”
But the Assyrian Chatti remained in Central Europe, as the
Encyclopedia Britannica and any student of German history
will plainly confirm. The Britannica describes the Chatti as “an
ancient German tribe” which “frequently came into conflict
with the Romans during the early years of the first century”
(“Chatti,” vol. 6). Certainly these Ger­man Chatti, whom the
Roman historian Tacitus also wrote about, could not be of
the sons of Heth, for they were a dark-skinned people. The
German Chatti were of the sons of Asshur, a fair-skinned
people. And it is from this early tribe that the more modern
German tribe, called the Hessians, received their name.
Notice again what the Encyclopedia Britannica says: “The
earliest known inhabitants of the country [Germany] were the
Chatti, who lived here during the first century a.d …. ‘Alike
both in race and language,’ says Walther Schultze, ‘the Chatti
and the Hessi are identi­cal’” (“Hesse,” vol. 13). Fur­thermore,
the Old High German spelling of Hesse was Hatti!
Dr. Hoeh wrote in the above-mentioned Plain Truth article,
“The land of the Hatti was the western part of the Assyrian
Empire …. The ancient kings of Assyria called themselves
Khatti-sars—meaning the ‘Kaisers of Hatti,’ or ‘Kings of Hatti.’
The chief people of Hatti regarded themselves as Assyrians ….
The ancient capital of the land of Hatti was popularly known
among the Romans as ‘Ninus Vetus—the old Nineveh.’”
For those honestly seeking the truth concerning the origin of the
German people, proof is abundant! In fact, concerning some of the
early Hittite monu­ments, Hastings says, “The Hittites seem to have
had a special fancy for combining parts of different animals into
strangely com­posite and sometimes grotesque forms” (“Hittites,”
Dictionary of the Bible, vol. 2). He then went on to say that they
were responsible for bringing the two-headed eagle into Europe,
which has long been a symbol of the German Empire!
There can be no doubt that one of the earliest German
tribes, known as the Chatti, descended from the Assyr­ian
Chatti who resided in Asia Minor.
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 Religious scholar and author Herbert W. Armstrong wrote
in The United States and Britain in Prophecy, “In the years
721-718 b.c., the House of Israel was conquered and its people
were soon driven out of their own land—out of their homes and
cities—and carried captives to Assyria, on the southern shores
of the Caspian Sea! And then … lost from view!” (p. 68, 1980
ed.). At this point in Israel’s history, they were completely lost
from view—known as the “lost ten tribes” of Israel. But do you
know why they became “lost” from the world’s view? Because
scholars and historians also lost sight of the Assyrians!
And during captivity, Israel went into Assyria, located anciently
at the southern shores of the Black and Caspian seas. Our free
booklet The United States and Britain in Prophecy, tracks the
north­western migration of the children of Israel into western
Europe, the Scandinavian peninsula, and the British Isles. Why
this migration? Because the Assyrians took them in that direction
when they migrated north­west into Central Europe!
As both peoples moved into Europe, the Israel­ites did not
remain as slaves of the Assyrians. Instead, they separated into the
regions listed above while the Assyrians mainly settled into Central
Europe, where Germany and Austria are located today.
The Assyrian Migration
Before their migration, Periplus, who lived around 550 b.c.,
wrote, “The coast of the Black Sea … is called Assyria” (Perrot
and Chipiez, History of Art in Sardinia, Judaea, Syria and Asia
Minor, vol. 2, p. 261). C. Leonard Woolley described what these
people looked like in his book, The Sumerians: “In the Zagros
hills and across the plain to the Tigris, there lived a … fair-haired
… people akin to the Guti (Goths) who … remained in what
was afterwards Assyria” (p. 5). This description certainly
matches those who descended from the line of Shem.
Here is what Dr. Herman Hoeh wrote in “Germany in
Prophecy!”: “When the ancient Greek writers wanted to
distinguish the Assyrians from the Arameans or Syri­ans, the
Greeks called the Assyr­ians ‘Leu­cosyri’—meaning ‘whites’ or
‘blonds,’ as distinct from the very brunette Syrians who still
live in Mesopotamia” (Plain Truth, Jan. 1963, p. 17).
By the time of Christ, the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder
recorded that the Assyrians were now dwelling north of the
Black Sea (Natural History, iv, 12, p. 183). By this time, they
had moved north.
But they did not stop there, as Mr. Armstrong wrote in The
United States and Britain in Prophecy: “The Assyri­ans—before
604 b.c.—left their land north of Babylon and migrated
north­west—through the lands that are now Georgia, the
Ukraine, Poland, and into the land that is called Germany
today. Today the descen­dants of those Assyr­ians are known
to us as the German people” (pp.‑143-144, 1980 ed.).
Tracing Germany’s Roots
For centuries, the German people have dominated the
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heartland of Central Europe. Yet they are a people who know
very little about their true origin—or at least refuse to know.
(The Germans themselves are responsible for hiding much
of this knowledge, just as many tried to hide their past at the
end of the Hitler era.)
Just as the modern-day Israelites are one family of people
from many different tribes, so too are the German people today.
They number well over 100 million people worldwide—most
of them residing in Germany and Austria.
Much was written about the early German tribes that
poured into Europe during the first and second centuries
a.d., thanks in large part to the Roman historian Tacitus,
who lived at that time. Among the most significant of these
early German tribes are the Chatti (ancestors of the modern
Hessians), Treveri, Tungri, and the Alammanni, to name just
a few. Chatti means “to break down by violence; to make
afraid or terrify.” The ancestors of this German tribe, before
migrating, lived mostly in Asia Minor, and were called the
Assyrian Chatti.
Many of these early German tribes were in constant
conflict with the Roman Empire, which is why the Romans
collectively labeled them Germani, meaning “war men.” As
Encyclopedia Britannica points out, “There is no evidence
that [Germani] was ever used by the Germans them­selves.
According to Tacitus it was first applied to the Tungri, whereas
Caesar records that four … tribes … were collectively known
as Germani” (“Germany,” 11th ed., vol. 11).
The Romans called them Germani because of their fierce,
warring nature. “Not a single neighbor of the Ger­mans,”
wrote Emil Ludwig, “could ever trust the Germans to remain
peaceable. No matter how happy their condition, their restless
passion would urge them on to ever more extreme demands”
(The Germans: Double History of a Nation, 1941, p. 12).
These early tribes migrated into central Europe, as historians
verify. The Romans labeled all of them “war men.” But from
where did they come? Smith’s Classical Dictionary answers:
“There can be no doubt that they [the Assyrians] … migrated
into Europe from the Caucasus and the countries around the
Black and Caspi­an seas” (“Germania,” p.‑361).
Speaking of the Indo-Germanic tribes which were invading
Europe while he was alive, the historian Jerome, who was born
in a.d. 340, wrote, “For ‘Assur (the Assyrian) also is joined with
them’”! (Letter 123, sec. 16, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers).
Jerome was quoting from Psalm 83:8. Jerome wrote of this
Assyrian migra­tion because he lived while it was happening!
He was an eyewitness to these events.
With many Germanic tribes flooding into Central Europe,
the stage was set for the Assyrian empire of old to again rise
to world dominance. All the Germanic people needed was
dynamic leadership to establish unity; visionaries whom
the people could rally around. For the next 1500 years, the
Germans found just that in the “Holy Roman Empire.”
Chapter three
S
omewhere on a shelf, in the average home, nestled
between the complete works of Shakes­peare and a
partial set of Britannica, sits the Holy Bible, as good
as new, with a thin layer of dust on it from neglect.
The majority of people who consider themselves “Christian”
sim­ply do not read and study the Bible. The best excuse for
not reading the Bible is that it “does not make sense.” How
can I understand it, most reason, when so much of it speaks
meta­phorically about great images, omi­nous beasts and
deceitful harlots?
It’s true that the Bible is filled with prophetic visions and
utter­ances. In fact, one third of the Bible is proph­ecy, most
of which is for the end time. But the Bible also contains
many prophe­cies which have already been fulfilled exactly
The
Unholy
Roman
Empire
as predicted. Those fulfilled prophe­cies
should compel us to blow the dust off
our Bibles and begin study­ing. But most
people do not.
Much of the Bible’s most famous
prophetic text centers around a system
of successive world-ruling Gentile
kingdoms that pre­cede the Second
Coming of Jesus Christ. These succes­sive
“beasts,” as they are called, are discussed
throughout the Bible, but especially in
four prophetic chapters: Daniel 2 and
7, and Revel­ation 13 and 17. Studied in
that order, each chapter adds a few more
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details to the one preceding it. Together, they build a complete
and yet simple foundation for all Bible prophecy.
In Daniel 2, you will find the best one-chapter overview of
prophecy in all the Bible. There God reveals through Daniel
a vision of a great image repre­senting these four successive
kingdoms. History proves these to be the Chal­dean Empire,
followed by the Persian, then Greco-Macedonian, and finally
the Roman Empire. These four were to continue in succession
right up to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
In Daniel 7, the prophet describes four beasts, again
representing four Gentile kingdoms, but with special emphasis
on the fourth—the Roman Empire. This beast has ten horns,
which the prophet says “are ten kings that shall arise” out of,
or after, the Roman Empire (verse 24). Daniel also describes a
“little horn” which grew among the ten horns and uprooted
the first three (verse 8). The meaning of this prophecy is made
plain in the book of Revelation.
Unlike Daniel 7, Revelation 13 only discusses one
beast—which repre­sents the fourth and final kingdom, the
Roman Empire. Because John lived during the rule of the
Roman Empire when he wrote the book of Revelation, he
had little to say about the three previous kingdoms. They
were already fulfilled prophecy!
In chapter 13, John describes a beast with seven heads
and ten horns, one head of which received a deadly wound.
Historians agree that the Roman Em­pire existed from 31 b.c.
to a.d. 476, at which point the kingdom was crushed. It died.
But its deadly wound was healed just as John prophe­sied
(verse 3). There were to be ten resur­rections to come out of that
Roman Empire (just as Daniel said), the first three of which
were plucked up by the roots by the “little horn”—suggesting
that they were not al­together Roman, but nevertheless ruled
within the ancient Roman terri­tory after the empire collapsed.
And that’s what hap­pened. Three barbaric tribes did rule in
the region before Justinian restored the Roman Empire in
a.d. 554 and effec­tively healed the deadly wound.
Revel­ation 17 fills in the remaining details. In that chapter,
once again John describes a beast with seven heads, but
none of these heads is wounded. This time a woman, which
throughout the Bible symbolizes a church, is riding the beast.
She is called a whore in verse 1, and therefore sym­bolizes a
great false church which rides, or heavily influ­ences, this
political beast.
Comparing the historical account with these prophe­cies
makes the meaning quite clear. When Justinian recognized
the supremacy of the pope in 554, the Roman Empire was
revived. And because of its close asso­ciation with the great
false church, this empire eventually assumed the name Holy
Roman Empire. Counting Justinian’s empire, there have
been six major, histori­cally documented resurrec­tions of the
so-called Holy Roman Em­pire—all of which have been heavily
influ­enced, and in some cases domi­nated, by the Vatican.
These historical facts shed light on the prophetic passages
we have briefly covered. Like the woman riding the beast in
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Revelation 17, the “little horn” in Daniel 7 represents the great
false church. The little horn uprooted the three non-religious
king­doms ruling within the region and then proceeded to
guide the seven remaining horns, or resurrections. Similarly,
the woman riding the beast holds sway over all seven heads,
which represent the last seven resur­rections of what has been
called the Holy Roman Empire.
That brings us to the purpose for this chapter. There have
been six resur­rections of the Roman Empire with the great
false church straddling them all. The seventh is now forming.
These unions, though heavily influenced by religion, have
been anything but holy. Students of the Bible are not surprised
by this fact because the Bible describes this political force as a
terrifying beast and the great church as the mother of harlots,
drunken with the blood of God’s saints. But most people do
not read the Bible.
Then what about history? Sad to say, most do not study
history either. In this chapter, let us take a closer look at the
historic relationship be­t ween Euro­pean emperors and the
papal throne throughout the Middle Ages. What are the
historic fruits of this union of church and state? And how
do these unions square with Bible prophecy?
As we briefly review these historical events, you will notice
how Germany has, for most of the Middle Ages, been the
most dominant influence in Europe.
Peaks and Valleys
John refers to the seven resur­rections of the Roman Empire as
“mountains” in Revela­tion 17:9-10. But between each “mountain
peak,” there were valleys. Though these resurrections were
prophesied to be successive, right up to Christ’s return, there
were lapses between each of them. H.G. Wells effectively
describes this “up and down” scenario in his book The Outline
of History: “The Roman Em­pire staggers, sprawls, is thrust off
the stage, and reappears, and—if we may carry the image one
step further—it is the Church of Rome which plays the part
of the magician and keeps this corpse alive” (p. 544).
Anciently, the Roman Empire was divided into two regions.
Rome was the capital in the west, Constantinople in the east.
Amazingly, the image of Daniel 2 refers to the two legs of iron
being the Roman Empire. By a.d. 476, Rome had been sacked
by fierce bar­barian tribes of Germanic origin (remember, it
was the Romans who labeled these fierce fighters Germani).
The eastern empire in Constantinople was virtually powerless.
The Roman Empire was officially wiped out.
By 554, Catholicism had gained enough strength to dominate
the world. At the pope’s behest, Justin­ian, the most famous of
all emperors in the east, moved his gov­ernment in the defunct
east­ern division to the west—Rome. The empire was temporarily
revived as the “Holy Roman Em­pire”—a union of European
nations with a Roman pope riding it like a woman on a beast.
Justinian’s rule in western Europe was short-lived. He died
in 565 and the empire languished. True to John’s prophecy in
Revelation 17, from its perch on a mountain peak, the beast
descended into a valley where it went into hiber­nation. But
not for long. Even before Justinian died, there was another,
far more terrifying, political presence emerging which would
forever change the face of politics and religion in Europe.
Charles the Great
The Franks were the first barbaric tribe to embrace Catholicism,
but it was for political gain, not religious. Mostly of Germanic
origin, the Franks used the church to support their expan­
sionist policies, while the church relied on Frankish rulers
for protection. It was a union based on politics alone.
The Frankish kingdom reached the
pinnacle of its power during the rule of
Charlemagne (mean­ing Charles the Great).
Before Charlemagne’s emer­gence as world
ruler, the political scene in Europe was greatly divided.
Ger­many was sliced into many differ­ent tribes. Much of
Italy was occupied by the Lom­bards. And Byzantium was
recognized as the successor to the eastern region of the old
Roman Empire. Charle­magne, in conjunction with the papal
throne, eventually changed all that—but not without much
blood­shed.
Charlemagne felt it his duty to defend the church. In 774,
at the request of Pope Leo iii, he entered into northern Italy
and con­quered the Lombard kingdom, uniting Italy for the
first time in centuries. In 799, he again came to the aid of the
pope, who was assaulted, brutally beaten, and thrown into
prison by a band of conspir­ators. With the military backing
of Charles and his Frankish troops, the pope was exoner­ated
of all wrongdoing and reinstated to his ecclesiastic office.
The following year, in Rome, while Charle­magne was
kneeling in prayer during a Christmas celebration inside old
St. Peter’s Church, the pope placed a crown upon his head,
pronouncing him “the 73rd emperor of the Fourth World
Empire.”
At this point, we should note that throughout the Middle
Ages, many scholars, theologians, even popes, knew the Roman
Empire was the fourth world-ruling kingdom. Many of them
even identified this fourth kingdom with the one Daniel spoke
of in his prophecy. That’s why Europeans and Catholics kept
trying to revive the empire! The Bible said there would only
be four empires. More on this later.
As king of the Franks, Char­lemagne was able to subjugate
every single German tribe but one: the Saxons. The Saxons
clung to their own faith and refused, even on pain of death,
to submit to Roman Catholi­cism. Charle­magne deter­mined
to force his brand of Christian­ity on them with the sword.
For years the Saxons obsti­nately resisted. At one point, out of
sheer frustration, Charle­magne execut­ed 4,500 Saxon prison­ers.
This barbar­ous act angered the Saxons even more.
It took 30 years for Charles to com­pletely extinguish the
“Saxon” prob­lem, but not before multiple thou­sands had
been executed for their religious beliefs. After more than 18
conquests against the Saxons, Charles finally prevailed. In
the end, Saxons either subjected themselves to the rule of
Charles, or their defiance ended in death.
As emperor of the “Holy” Roman Empire, Charles felt it
his duty to spread the Christian faith using whatever means
necessary. The New Encyclopedia Bri­tannica says, “The violent
methods by which this missionary task was car­ried out had
been unknown to the ear­lier Middle Ages, and the sanguinary
[bloody] punishment meted out to those who broke canon
law or con­tinued to engage in pagan practices
called forth criticism in Charles’ own circle”
(“Char­lemagne, Emperor,” vol. 4).
The violence Charlemagne used to enforce
the Catholic religion on his subjects was simply unknown
in earlier empires! He forced his brand of Christianity on
everyone. His empire may have had distinct ties to the ancient
Romans, but it was certain­ly not “holy”—even if there was a
great church guiding it.
And yet, for centuries to come, the aim of succeeding
emperors was to restore the traditions of Charlemagne in
their quest to revive the Roman Empire!
The German Holy Roman Empire
Charlemagne’s empire, one of the greatest to ever rule in
Europe, did not even outlive his son and successor. When
it dissolved, the peoples on the western side of his empire
eventually became known as French. The Ger­man-speaking
peoples between the Rhine and the Slavs in the east devel­oped
into Germany. The fact that he ruled over both peoples is why
some dispute the national heritage of Char­lemagne.
While there might be some con­troversy over Charle­magne’s
roots, there is none when it comes to the next Roman revival.
Otto the Great, anoint­ed as Ger­man king in 936, was the first
of a long line of German emperors to dom­inate the European
political arena. The pope bestowed the imperial crown upon
Otto in 962. For the next 800 years, German kings called
themselves “Roman emperors of the German nation.”
Like so many who followed in his footsteps, Otto was a
ruthless warrior. He forcefully extended “Christianity” with
the sword. Encyclopedia Britannica says he was “subject to
violent bursts of passion” and that “his policy was to crush all
tendencies to independence” (“Otto i,” 11th edition, vol. 20).
In each new territory he con­quered, Otto carefully planted
new German colonies. This marked the dawn of German
nation­alism. Prior to this time, the Ger­mans were still largely
div­ided according to tribe. “But when their kings acquired
the right to be crowned Roman emperors, they them­selves
became the imperial race. They began therefore to take pride
in the common German name. A feeling of nationality was
thus aroused, which never after­wards quite left the Germans
even in their darkest periods” (Henry Northrop, History of
the World, vol. 1, p. 529).
This world-ruling, nationalistic spirit is what drove so
many German kings across the Alps into Italy in search of
things Roman. Though relations between German emperors

and Cath­olic popes have not been without com­peti­tion and
struggle for supremacy, it is clear why the affair has endured
the test of time. German emperors have always known that
the road to world dominion goes through Rome. Equally so,
the papacy has long known that the only way to forcefully
spread its religion is to straddle the terrifying political beast
wielding the sword.
Preserving the Union
Though there is not enough space to elaborate on every
emperor who ruled during the third revival of the Holy
Roman Empire, it is impor­tant to at least show the length
at which many German kings went to secure close ties with
the papacy. Otto the Great’s next two succes­sors, his son and
grandson, spent much of their lives, and eventually died, in
the neighborhood of Rome. Later, Henry iv (1056-1106), after
being ex­communi­cated from the church, waited outside the
pope’s castle in freezing conditions for three days before the
pontiff came out to grant him forgive­ness. Frederick Barbarossa
(1152-1190) spent 15 years in northern Italy during six different
military expeditions. He too was intent on keeping alive the
ancient glory and power of the Roman Empire.
Barbar­ossa’s grandson, Freder­ick ii (1212-1250), is the last
great emperor to rule during this German-dominated revival
of the Roman Empire. Frederick was one of the most notable
German emperors ever. To him, the ideal gov­ern­ment was
a totalitarian state.
Like emperors before him, Freder­ick also considered
himself quite religi­ous. In 1224, he established legislation which
Holy Roman Emperor
The pope crowns Charlemagne
in St. Peter’s Church
permitted burning heretics at the stake. Pope Honorius iii and
his successor, Gregory ix, were delighted with the bill.
After Frederick’s death, the Roman Empire again went to
sleep—another valley among the seven “moun­tain peaks.”
The stage was set for another German family to curry favor
with the Vatican in their quest for world rule. Their royal
line would eventually span 600 years of history!
The Habsburg Dynasty
For some time, the Roman Empire endured without an
emperor. In 1273, the Austrian Rudolf of Habs­burg was
crowned king in Aachen, but not em­peror. Early on, the
Habs­burgs seemed more concerned about the power of their
own dynasty in Germany and Austria than they were about
world dominion.
It wasn’t until the 15th century that the emperorship would
again play a key role in the aspirations of Ger­man-speaking
kings. That’s when Frederick v, the Habsburg king of Germany,
was crowned by the pope as Holy Roman Emperor. That title
remained in the family until the dynasty ended in 1806.
The greatness of the Habsburg dynasty lies more in
its duration than it does in its dynamic leaders. Yet it did
produce at least two outstand­ing kings, reigning successively
in the 16th cen­tury—Maximilian i (1493-1519) and Charles v
(1519-1556).
Maximilian laid the groundwork for an international
empire by arrang­ing two marriages with the Spanish House
of Castile and Aragon. In one marriage, Maxi­mil­ian’s son
Philip married Joanna, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella.
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The genealogy of the Habsburg dynasty thus divided along
German and Spanish lines.
It was Charles, son of Philip and Joanna, who was crowned
Roman em­peror in 1520 as Charles v. He became one of the
greatest Ger­man emperors in history. Like Frederick ii,
Charles believed the emperor reigned supreme. It was during
his reign that this fourth revival of the Holy Roman Empire
reached its peak.
At age 19, Charles became ruler over Spanish and German
domin­ions, including Germany, Burgundy, Italy and Spain,
along with sizable overseas possessions. His kingdom became
known as “the empire where the sun never set.” Not since
the days of Char­lemagne had a German emperor ruled over
such a vast territory.
Before his coronation in Aachen, Charles was asked the
traditional questions by the Elector of Cologne: “Wilt thou
hold and guard by all proper means the sacred faith as handed
down to Catholic men? Wilt thou be the faithful shield and
protec­tor of the holy church and her servants? Wilt thou
uphold and recover those rights of the realm and possessions
of the empire which have been unlawfully usurped? … Wilt
thou pay due submis­sion to the Roman pontiff and the Holy
Roman Empire?”
“I will,” Charles responded.
Ten years later he was crowned emper­or in Rome by the
pope, and the love affair between church and state was rekindled
once more. Though Charles was sworn to defend the Catholic
Church, he did make a few vain attempts to mend the rift in the
religious world sparked by Luther’s rebellion in 1517. Never­theless,
his persecution against Arabs and Jews is well documented. In
fact, he ascend­ed to the height of his power while the Spanish
and Roman inquisi­tions were raging in Europe.
After Charles’ death, the Habs­burg dynasty severed
along Spanish and Austrian lines. The Austrian Habsburg
line still assumed the title “Roman emperors of the German
nation” just like their prede­cessors five centuries before,
except they no longer pilgrimaged to Rome to be crowned
by the pope. The imperial office became hereditary within
the Habsburg line.
By this point, the power and might of the fourth revival
of the Holy Roman Empire began to wane. The Protestant
Reformation considerably weakened the once-domi­nant
church in Rome. On the secular side, the tide of power was
beginning to shift toward France. The fourth revival of the
“Holy” Roman Empire was on its last leg.
When Napoleon finally crushed what remained of the
Habsburg empire in the 19th century, it appeared that the last
vestige of the “Holy” Roman Em­pire was destroyed. But what
histori­ans do not realize is that when Napole­on pom­pously
grabbed the emperor’s crown from the pope’s hands and
crowned himself in 1804, the Holy Roman Empire had merely
transferred into the hands of the ambitious Frenchman.
After centuries of German and Austrian dominance, the
Holy Roman Empire revived again for a brief inter­val of
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French dominance. It was the Roman Empire in disguise.
Napol­eon set out to carry on the ideals of Charle­magne, only
in a more modern world. Like the German emperors before
him, Napol­eon envisioned himself ruling the world—and
once again through the Vatican.
French dominance was short-lived. In the 20th century, the
same Roman Empire reared its ugly head for a sixth time, once
again with a German “emperor” and the Catholic Church as
the main players. Though disguised by modern advancement,
it was the Middle Ages all over again—this time on a much
larger scale and with more sophisticated weaponry. (More
on this in Chapter 4).
The Great Mistake of the Middle Ages
During Rudolf of Habsburg’s reign in the 13th century, a man
named Jordan of Osnabru­eck wrote a book about how the
Roman Empire was transferred into the hand of the Ger­mans.
He was not the only one in the Middle Ages to harbor such
ideology. It was the Ger­mans, many thought, who had the
monumental task of ruling and preserving the Holy Roman
Empire. But why?
Remember that when Charle­magne was crowned, the pope
called him emperor of the fourth world em­pire. The idea that
the Roman Empire was the fourth to rule the world did not
originate with this pope. In fact, cen­turies before, while the
old Roman Em­pire still existed, most Jews and Chris­tians
thought it would be the world’s last kingdom because of what
the Prophet Daniel wrote.
Many scholars knew the Roman Empire was prophesied to
be the fourth and final world empire. But beyond that, they
tragically misinter­preted Bible prophe­cies. That is what led to
so much violence and bloodshed during the Middle Ages.
People falsely assumed that the Antichrist would emerge on
the world scene once the Roman Empire was extinguished. What
the Bible actually says is that after the fourth empire passes from
the scene, God’s Kingdom would be set up (Daniel 2:44).
This also was misinter­preted because people during the
Middle Ages assumed the Holy Roman Empire was God’s
Kingdom on Earth! That elevated their laws and aspira­tions for
world rule above God’s. Thus, the groundwork for the tragedy
of the Middle Ages was laid, not upon a holy empire, but upon
Satan-inspired, gross misinter­pretations of God’s Word.
The Germans, more than any other people, felt it their
divine duty to preserve this “Holy” Roman Empire so that
“Antichrist” might not appear. So time and time again, when
the empire sank into the depths of doom, it would somehow
muster enough strength to again raise itself—usually behind
one powerful leader, oftentimes German, supported by a
powerful religious head in Rome.
What the people of these empires also failed to understand
was that these same Roman resurrec­tions were them­selves
prophe­sied in God’s Holy Bible! The Bible does prophesy
of four, and only four, world-ruling empires. But as we have
seen, that final empire, after it was crushed in a.d. 476, was
 Heir to a legacy
Roman Herzog receives
the 1997 International
Charlemagne Prize
to resur­rect ten more times, the last seven of which would
be in conjunction with the papal authority in Rome as the
resur­rected “Holy Roman Empire.”
It is that same Roman Empire, under new names and titles,
which again resurrected earlier this century under German
dominance, and which awaits one last hurrah, again prodded
by a strong European hand, probably German.
A Call to Remembrance
On May 8, 1997, former German Presi­dent Roman Herzog was
presented with the International Charle­magne Prize for his
efforts to unite Europe. In his accep­tance speech, Dr. Herzog
said, “For 1000 years the destiny of our continent has revolved
round the choice between a cohesive or a frag­mented Europe.
Charlemagne, after whom our prize is named, made his own
particular choice: the first unifica­tion of Europe. At such an
hour the truth must be told: only by wading through a sea of
blood, sweat and tears did he reach his goal.”
Indeed, the history of European unification has been one
of much blood. And Germany has been Eur­ope’s greatest
perpetrator in instigating that bloodshed.
Roman Herzog has long been one of Ger­many’s biggest
promoters for European unifica­tion. He and many other
European leaders fre­quently hear­ken back to Charle­magne
as the inspir­ation behind modern-day unification.
Very soon now, ten nations, or groups of nations, in Europe
will band together in a union influenced by a great church.
Every­t hing about the union will seem right. The religion,
the prosperity, the military might. But the final fruits of this
union will be horri­f ying. History bears this out. Conspir­acy,
betrayal, blood­shed, intol­erance, execution. These words best
describe the “Holy” Roman Empire of the Middle Ages.
Approximately 40 million people were butchered during
the so-called Holy Inquisi­tion—the papacy’s nightmar­ish
vaccine for the “heresy” virus! The Roman and Span­ish
inquisitions virtually eliminated Protes­tantism in Italy and
Spain! The world has probably never seen a more vile period
than those dark and miser­able years of the 14th, 15th and
16th centuries.
The historical fruits of this union between a powerful politi-
cal beast and a great false church have not been holy—rather
unholy. And when those rotten fruits are revealed one last
time, the world will be shocked. How could something
which seems so right—so reli­gious—be so evil? That answer
is found written upon thousands of pages of history. More
importantly, God proph­esied it long ago in the pages of the
book almost no one reads and studies—the Holy Bible. Perhaps
it is time we grab that book from the shelf, blow off the dust
and crack it open. You’ll be shocked at how accurately God
predicts the future.
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Chapter four

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W hen Adolf Hitler was 17 years old, a
radical change occurred in his life. A friend
close to Hitler was deeply shaken by his voice.
In his book called The Psycho­pathic God—Adolf Hitler,
Robert G.L. Waite wrote (empha­sis mine through­out):
“After gazing intensely at his friend for a full minute,
he began to speak. ‘Never before and never again have
I heard Adolf Hitler speak as he did in that hour as we
stood there alone under the stars as though we were the
only creatures in the world.’ [August] Kubizek thought
there was something strange about Hitler that night. ‘It
was as if another being spoke out of his body, and
moved him as much as it did me. It wasn’t at all a case
of a speaker being carried away by his own words. On the
contrary; I rather felt as though he himself listened with
astonishment and emotion to what burst forth from him
with elementary force. I will not attempt to interpret this
phenome­non, but it was a state of complete ecstasy and
rapture.’ What Hitler said that night has been lost, but one
thing was burned into Kubizek’s memory. Adolf did not
speak of becoming an artist or an architect. Now he saw
himself, like Rienzi, as the Messiah of his people. He
spoke of a ‘mandate which, one day, he would receive from
the people to lead them out of servitude to the heights of
freedom.… He spoke of a special mission which one
day would be entrusted to him’” (p. 205).
We need to think about and let God interpret this very
rare phenome­non. Hitler’s friend said another voice spoke
through him! Both of them were stirred emotionally.
After that experience, Hitler no longer thought like a 17-
year-old boy. He saw himself as “the Messiah”! This is exactly
the way the devil thinks! (Isaiah 14:14). Hitler knew he would
re­ceive a mandate—a “special mission” to lead his people.
Some­t hing ex­treme­ly rare and radical occurred that night.
The Sixth Head
When Benito Mussolini became the Italian leader before
World War ii, he called his regime the Holy Roman Empire.
Herbert W. Armstrong knew this was the sixth head of the
Roman Empire (Revelation 17:8). What Mr. Arm­strong
didn’t understand was that Hitler played the key role in the
Holy Roman Empire—not Mussolini. More informa­t ion
has become available that Mr. Armstrong didn’t have. Satan
was the real power behind the sixth head of the Holy Roman
Empire (Revelation 13:4). But he gave the leading hu­man role
to Hitler. Hitler led the Holy Roman Empire, even though
he didn’t openly call his regime by that name. However, the
Third Reich has a similar meaning.
The Bible says this political beast is always guided, or
heavily influenced, by a great church. However, much of this
church connec­tion is usually carried out behind the scenes.
But the single unifying force is the devil.
“The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend
out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that
dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose
names were not written in the book of
life from the foundation of the world,
when they behold the beast that was,
and is not, and yet is” (Revelation 17:8).
The Greek word for “bottom­less pit” is
abyss, which means under­ground. That
means this great empire has contin­ued to
survive from the original Roman Empire;
it has just been “under­ground” at times.
There have been valleys in between the
mountain peaks. The last seven heads,
or resur­rections, were prophe­sied to be
guided by a great church. That is how
church and state get the name “Holy”
Roman Empire.
The sixth head ascended out of the
underground. That means most of the
world was ignorant of its exis­tence.
After it was defeated by the Allies in
World War ii, it went back under­ground
where it began deceit­f ully working to
regain power over the world. There is no
final defeat in their thinking. A defeat
is only a setback in their goal of world
domination!
This empire will continue until God
destroys it, because it is ruled by Satan.
The beast preys mightily on the
world’s ignorance. Deceit is its great­est
weapon. The Bible says this is how it
crushes its “lovers”!
Satan keeps it alive to rule the world,
and it is about to burst on the world
scene again—this time with greater
power than ever before. Worldwide,
most people’s faces sud­denly will turn
white with unparal­leled fear! This
European power is about ready to shock
the world—again!
Thankfully, it will be the last time.
We can understand the rising seventh
head much better and more easily if we
understand the sixth. The sixth head
gives us a dramatic pre­view of what
is to happen in the near future one final
time. All we have to do is grasp what the
sixth head did, then multiply it by about
20 or 30! The Bible reveals that the sixth
head has a very close tie to the seventh.
Satan’s Power
“And they worshipped the dragon which
gave power unto the beast: and they
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worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast?
who is able to make war with him?” (Revelation 13:4). Satan
is the power behind this Euro­pean com­bine that is rising.
His beast demon­strates its power by going to war. Satan is
the master destroyer. He is about to aim his hate-filled power
at the U.S., Britain and the Jewish nation. Those are Satan’s
main targets among the nations. They are the people who
have had a history with God.
The devil used Hitler and the Holy Roman Empire to
destroy around 50 million people in World War ii. They
brought intense suffering upon much greater numbers of
people. We have repeatedly seen the many concentra­tion
camps on television. Edward R. Mur­row rightly called them
extermina­tion camps—their main function was to exterminate
people! That is only a small preview of what is about to impact
this world again.
Satan already demonstrated his power in World War ii. We
should receive that as a warning of what is about to happen
again, but on a much larger scale!
But Satan has an even greater target spiri­tually. “And
there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and
blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty
and two months” (verse 5). The world is about to be plunged
into a 31/2-year tribula­tion—the “times of the Gentiles” (Luke
21:24). It will be the worst suffering this Earth has ever known
(Jeremiah 30:6-7; Daniel 12:1; Matthew 24:21-22).
“And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,
to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that
dwell in heaven” (Revelation 13:6). This European combine
speaks blasphemy against God. It has awesome power and
satanic arrogance.
“And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,
and to over­come them: and power was given him over all
kindreds, and tongues, and nations” (verse 7). Satan’s main
war will be against God’s own saints. He over­comes, or kills,
them. Right now most of the saints are rebelling against God.
If they don’t repent before the Tribulation, they must sacrifice
their physical lives to qualify for the Kingdom.
“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him,
whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb
slain from the foundation of the world” (verse 8). Satan will
force everyone under his power, by the threat of death, to
worship his religion. Only those whose names are written
in God’s book of life will refuse.
The world can’t even imagine how horrifying this nightmare
is going to be!
We need to see how Satan worked through a man in World
War ii. Then we can better understand how he will use a man
to plunge the world into World War iii.
Hitler’s Religion
In 1926 Hitler said, “Christ was the greatest early fighter in
the battle against the world enemy, the Jews…. The work that
Christ started but could not finish, I—Adolf Hitler—will
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con­clude” (John Toland, Adolf Hitler, p. 302). He did not
consider Jesus a Jew, but only a half-Jew, because He was
begotten by God.
Hitler received revelation from his god about leading the
Third Reich in World War ii.
He was obviously being used by the god of this world—
Satan—and his demons (2 Corinthians 4:4). Most are ignorant
of the spirit world because people refuse to know God and
the devil!
Hitler said, “We are not a move­ment, rather we are a
religion .… I’m going to become a religious figure” (Waite,
op. cit.). Even Hitler’s “thou­sand year Reich” was a religious
belief based on the 1000-year biblical Millennium.
It is truly amazing that the world knows so little about the
satanic power which was behind Hitler. So much has been
written, but not understood. “The colossal Assembly Hall
planned for his new capital of Germania should be seen as
a secular cathedral rather than a civic building. The dome
was to be large enough to encompass the dome of St. Peter’s
seven times—a favorite num­ber. As Albert Speer has noted,
‘It was basically a hall of worship.… With­out such cult
significance the motiva­tion for Hitler’s main structure would
have been senseless and unintelli­gible …’” (ibid., p. 32).
What is he saying? Albert Speer, a very intelligent and close
associate to Hitler, clearly stated that Hitler was motivated by
an extreme cult worship. That means we cannot understand
what motivated Hitler unless we comprehend his radical
religion! We must perceive why he planned to build a great
“hall of worship” with such bizarre “cult significance.”
Those people close to Hitler have told the world about his
satanic religion. Still, the world usually refuses to believe them!
The murderous fruits of Hitler’s regime should make us
see a sickness beyond the human realm!
Humanity must learn the reality of Satan—either
by word or by experience through suffering!
Hitler was prepared for his job. Satan is the great coun-
terfeiter. As God uses one man to lead His Church, so does
Satan. The devil has a “very elect” also. Mr. Waite com­ments
on a telling statement of Hitler’s: “‘Above all, I have learned
from the Jesuit order.’ Certainly the oath of direct obedience
to the führer was strikingly reminis­cent of the special oath
that Jesuits swear to the pope. Moreover, Hitler spoke of his
elite SS, who wore the sacred symbol and dressed in black,
as his Society of Jesus. He also ordered SS officers to study
the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola for training in
the rigid discipline of the faith” (ibid., p. 32).
There is a combined church and state in the Holy Roman
Empire. Notice what John Toland wrote about the close tie
between Hitler and leaders in the Catholic Church: “By
mid-1933 the majority of Germans supported Hitler …. ‘Hitler
knows how to guide the ship,’ announced Monsignor Ludwig
Kass, leader of the recently outlawed Catholic Party after an
audience with the pope. ‘Even before he became chancellor
I met him frequently and was greatly impressed by his clear
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Extermination Camps
A
t first, to accomplish the mass murder of
Jews, Nazis used mobile killing squads called
Einsatzgruppen, consisting of four units of
between 500 and 900 men each. By fall of 1942, they
had murdered approximately 1,500,000 Jews. But
the death camps proved to be a better, faster, less
personal method for killing Jews,
one that spared the shoot-
ers, not the victims,
emotional
anguish.
The total figure for
Jewish genocide,
including shootings and the
camps, was between 5.2 and
5.8 million, roughly half of Europe’s
Jewish population. About five million
other victims perished at the hands of
Nazi Germany. The estimated death
tolls for the camps are as follows:
Auschwitz 1,000,000 Jews;
1,000,000 others
Treblinka 750,000 Jews
Belzec 550,000 Jews
Sobibór 200,000 Jews
Chelmno 150,000 Jews
Lublin 50,000 Jews
thinking, by his way of facing realities while upholding his
ideals, which are noble …. It matters little who rules so long as
order is maintained.’ Pius xi subscribed to the same principles,
as was proved on July 20 when a con­cord­at between the
Vatican and Hitler was signed. The church agreed to
keep priests and religion out of politics while Hitler, among
other things, granted complete freedom to confessional
schools throughout the country, a notable victory for German
Catholics. His Holi­ness welcomed Hitler’s repre­sentative,
Franz von Papen, most graciously and remarked how pleased
he was that the German government now had at its head a
man uncom­promis­ingly opposed to Commu­nism and Russian
nihilism in all its forms.’
“The Vatican was so appreciative of being recognized as
a full partner that it asked God to bless the Reich. On
a more practical level, it ordered German bishops to
swear allegiance to the National Socialist regime.
The new oath concluded with these significant words: ‘In
the performance of my spiritual office and in my solicitude
for the welfare and the interest of the German Reich, I will
endeavor to avoid all detrimental acts which might endanger
it’” (op. cit., pp. 430-432).
This illustrates how the church and state have cooperated
during the six resurrections of the Roman Empire. Now it is
happening once again in Europe.
Many Catholics today don’t like to admit Hitler’s connection
with Catholi­cism. We have written often about how most of
the Nazi leaders escaped after World War ii through
the Vatican “ratlines.” That is a well-documented truth.
The highest leaders in the Catholic Church helped
the worst criminals of the 20th century escape! That
is not a holy relationship. That truth alone ought to electrify
people into an intense concern about what is happen­ing in
Europe today!
It’s more than a deep sleep that people are in—it is a coma!
But not for long. The time of blindness is about over.
What Happened in Vienna?
Adolf Hitler said the foundation of his philosophy was laid
in Vienna. Why Vienna? What happened there?
“He insisted … that his early years in Vienna were absolutely
crucial to his career because ‘at that time I formed an image
of the world and a view of life which became the
foundation for my actions …. I have had to change
nothing.’ …
“Albert Speer, who knew Hitler best during World War ii,
was con­v inced that the führer’s intellec­tual develop­ment
stopped with the world as he had known it in Vienna
in 1910” (Waite, op. cit., p. 14).
Hitler later wrote about this critical period in Vienna
in his book, Mein Kampf: “This was the time in which the
greatest change I was ever to experience took place
in me. From a feeble cosmo­polite I had turned into a fanatical
anti-Semite.”
Waite then continues in his book: “It is difficult to overstate
the impor­tance to Hitler of his commit­ment to anti-Semitism.
It meant almost every­t hing to him” (pp. 216-217).
However, the biggest change in Hitler was not becoming
a fanatical anti-Semite. That is only part of the story. This is
where many people are deceived.
Much of the world looks upon the Jews as God’s chosen
people. In Vien­na, Hitler came to believe that God had replaced
the Jews with the Ger­mans and the Holy Roman Empire. He
be­lieved the Germans were God’s chosen people. This is why
the crown jewels of that empire meant so much to him.
In 1938, at a rally in Nuremberg, “Hitler had brought from
Vienna, after a hundred and forty years, the insignia of the
First Reich—the Imperial Crown, the Orb of Empire, the Scepter
and the Imperial Sword. At the presen­tation of these symbols of
imperialism he solemnly vowed that they would remain
in Nuremberg forever” (Toland, op. cit., p. 644).
That was a strong statement. He “solemnly vowed”
that the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire were to
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 “remain in Nuremberg forever.” This is like a death-defying
commit­ment to the Holy Roman Empire and his god! He
made a vow for ever!
The crown jewels were to be a key part of the Third
Reich, as they were of the First Reich!
When and where did Hitler become so fiercely loyal to
the crown jewels? Logic tells us it had to happen while he
was growing up in Vienna. Much of that information has
Third Reich crown jewels remained underground. The god of this world wants that
Hitler claimed ownership truth to remain hidden until he is once again ruling this
of the Orb of Empire, great beast power (Revelation 13, 17).
the Imperial Crown and Hitler gave his most “inspired” speeches at the frenzied,
Imperial Sword. torch-lit meet­ings in Nuremberg. That is where the crown
jewels were. And where you find the crown jewels, Satan—the
king—is near.
Again, who is the real king of the Holy Roman Empire?
“And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a
great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven
crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the
stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon
stood before the woman which was ready to be deliv­ered, for
to devour her child as soon as it was born” (Revelation 12:3-4).
Satan is the ruler of those seven heads! He wore the six crowns
of the Holy Roman Empire, and he is about to wear the seventh.
He is the real king of the beast (see Revelation 13:4).
He has the kind of power that led one third of the angels to rebel
(Revelation 12:4). How much more he can do to puny men!
When are we going to wake up?
Understand this significant truth! Hitler’s founda­tional
lesson in Vienna was about the Holy Roman Empire! If we
can’t learn that lesson by hearing God’s message, then we
must learn it by becoming a victim.
In his book The Young Hitler I Knew, August Kubizek reveals
a teenage Hitler talking about personally solving homosexuality
and other “social prob­lems” when he established his Reich.
According to Kubizek, the young Hitler was “abso­lutely
con­vinced that one day he, person­ally, would give commands
whereby hun­dreds and thousands of plans and projects he had
at his fingertips would be carried out” (pp. 207, 212-213).
Hitler was discussing rule over the world, even giving
specifics of how he would do it! How could such a young man,
a teenager, think such thoughts? Because he knew it had been
done many times before by the Holy Roman Empire.
Hitler was convinced that he alone understood the true
meaning of world history. Waite quotes two of Hitler’s own
speeches where he stressed his own importance. The first speech
was given to the commanding generals of the Wehrmacht on
Novem­ber 23, 1939. Hitler said, “I must in all modesty say
that my own person is indispensable. Neither a military nor
a civilian personality could replace me.… I am convinced of
the strength of my brain and my resolution.… The fate of
the Reich is dependent entirely upon me.”
In another speech given on Feb­ruary 15, 1942, Hitler said,
“I have created a world power out of the German Reich. I am
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bound­lessly proud that I was blessed by Providence with the
permission to lead this battle.”
Hitler Heard Voices
Hitler considered the Jew to be the devil personified. In
truth, the Jews have been specially commissioned to preserve
the oracles of God (Romans 3:1-3). The oracles include the
sacred calendar, knowledge of the biblical week, includ­ing the
seventh-day Sabbath, and the Old Testament Scriptures.
Jews suffered at Hitler’s hand more than any other race.
Historically, the main victim of the Holy Roman Empire has been
the spiritual Jews—or God’s Church (Revelation 6:9-11; 17:5-6).
So Hitler’s hatred of Jews goes much deeper than the world
has ever even imagined. The main force of this emotion
is Satan’s hatred for God!
“Something clicked in the Pase­walk Hospital. It was
there at the turn of the year 1918-1919 that Hitler resolved his
identity problem and reached what he called ‘the most decisive
decision of my life.’ For now, finally, he knew who he was and
what he must do. He was the leader sent by destiny. He must
answer the ‘voices’ that he said he heard—like Joan of
Arc—distinctly calling him as he lay in his hospital
bed. The voices told him to rescue his Mother­land from the
Jews who had violated her” (Waite, op. cit., p. 236).
On page 29 of his book, Waite wrote, “He told an aide
that during the preceding autumn, as he lay wounded in a
military hospital, he had received a super­natural vision
which command­ed him to save Germany.”
Hitler heard voices. He had a “supernatural vision which
command­ed him to save Germany.” Com­manded? Of course
he actually caused Germany’s destruction, but only because
God intervened.
He obeyed the command of his false god! He listened to and
heeded the supernatural voice of Satan! Hitler knew this voice was
not from men. But most people don’t know it! Most still refuse
to understand. When are we going to wake up and understand
the god of this world? How much suffering will it take?
Hitler’s Eyes
Why did Hitler have such shining eyes with a “curi­ously
hypnotic effect”? “The most impressive feature of his otherwise
coarse and rather undistin­guished face was his eyes. They
were extraordinarily light blue in color, with a faint touch
of greenish-gray. Almost everyone who met him mentioned
his strangely compelling eyes. This includes Robert
Coulondre, the French ambassador, and the German dramatist
Gerhart Hauptmann who, when first introduced to Hitler,
stared into his famous eyes and later told friends, ‘It was the
greatest moment of my life!’ Martha Dodd, daughter of the
Ameri­can ambassador, was not disappointed in the famous
eyes, finding them ‘star­tling and unforgettable….’
“He knew the power of his own slightly protruding, shining
eyes, whose lashless eyelids added to their curiously hypnotic
effect” (ibid., p. 5).
A boyhood friend of Hitler’s said his “eyes were so outstanding
that one didn’t notice anything else. Never in my life have I
seen any other person whose appear­ance—how shall I put it—was
so completely dominated by the eyes .… It was uncanny
how those eyes could change their expres­sion, especially when
Adolf was speak­ing …. In fact, Adolf spoke with his eyes, and
even when his lips were silent one knew what he wanted to say.
When he first came to our house and I intro­duced him to my
mother she said to me in the evening, ‘What eyes your friend
has!’ And I re­member quite distinctly that there was more fear
than ad­mira­tion in her words. If I am asked where one could
per­ceive, in his youth, this man’s exceptional qualities, I can
only answer, ‘In the eyes’” (Kubizek, op. cit., pp. 17-18).
Waite continues in his book: “Women in particular continued
to be impressed and frightened by his eyes. Nietzsche’s
sister, typically, was fasci­nated and disturbed by them:
‘They … searched me through and through.’ The penetrating
quality remained to the end. A young military adjutant who
saw his führer just before Hitler killed himself in 1945 was
deeply shocked by the appearance of ‘a sick, almost senile old
man.’ But the eyes were still effective: ‘Only in his eyes was
there an indescribable flickering bright­ness … and the
glance he gave me was strangely penetrating’” (ibid., p. 6).
H.S. Chamberlain, after meeting Hitler, later told him, “It
is as if your eyes were equipped with hands, for they
grip a man and hold him fast” (ibid., p. 131).
Waite wrote on page 182, “Hit­ler’s eyes were particu­larly
important to him, and others began to notice them in early
adolescence. His secondary school teacher, Dr. Gissinger,
described Adolf’s eyes as ‘shining.’”
It is not natural to have shining eyes that can cast such a
spell. Anybody who knows the Bible knows he was Satan or
demon-possessed.
In Ezekiel 28:11-14, God refers to an evil king and Satan
interchangeably. That is because the king was either possessed
or totally controlled by Satan—the god of this world. Satan has
deceived the whole world about his power (Revelation 12:9).
From the above quotes, we find that Hitler’s eyes were
“strangely com­pelling,” “shining,” “startling and un­forgettable,”
they caused fear, and “frightened” and disturbed people.
His eyes would “grip a man and hold him fast.” They had a
“curiously hypnotic effect.”
His eyes were not normal. Why? The first physical sign to
indicate demon possession is through the eyes. How could
such a ghastly experience not affect the eyes intensely?
Love can be shown through the eyes. So can hate. The
Bible describes the evil women of Israel as having “wanton
eyes” (Isaiah 3:16). The Hebrew means they are “deceiving
with their eyes.” Also their “counte­nance doeth witness
against them” (verse 9). Nothing about the human body is
more revealing than the eyes.
People in this world see so much of Satan and know so
little about him. He can be staring right at them and they
don’t have a clue he is there.
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A Willing Subject
“Hitler did not like to be told that the ways of God were not
always revealed to him. On one occasion an aide noted that
‘God does not let people look at the cards He holds.’ Hitler
immediately broke forth into such a paroxysm of fury that
he himself feared a heart attack. He gave orders that the aide
never repeat the offensive phrase.
“The feeling that he was being specially guided
from on high grew more intense through the years. On
September 16, 1935, he said, ‘What was denied to millions of
men was given to us by Providence, and our work will be still
remembered by the last members of posterity.’ In a speech in
his hometown of Linz, March 12, 1938: ‘When once departed
from this city, I carried with me the very same confes­sion of
faith that fills me today …. If Providence once then called me
from out of this city … then Provi­dence must thereby have
given me a mission.’…
“His convictions were rein­forced by miraculous escapes
from assassina­tion. After the failure of the bomb plot of July
20, 1944, he told a naval aide, ‘Now the Almighty has stayed
their [assassins’] hands once more’” (Waite, op. cit., p. 30).
In early October of 1923, “While motoring in his new
car through the Bavarian hills with Rosenberg and the
Hanfstaengls, fog unexpectedly enshrouded the highway and
the open red Mercedes lurched into a ditch. No one spoke on
the way back to Munich, then he turned to Helene. ‘I noticed
you were not at all frightened by our mishap. I knew we would
not be in­jured. This will not be the only accident which will
leave me unharmed. I shall pass through them all and succeed
in my plans’” (Toland, op. cit., p. 200).
In a speech in Munich on March 14, 1936, Hitler said, “I
go the way that Providence dictates for me with all
the assurance of a sleep­walker” (Waite, op. cit.).
This is a very disturbing state­ment—if you understand
Satan and his powers. Hitler had no real control of his own
mind! He totally depended on his god for guidance!
This is very common in history. Satan rules this world
through people. As Hitler totally yielded to Satan, he was
given great power.
“His effectiveness as a demagogue is attested by nearly
everyone who heard him. The Munich police reports for
November 1919 describe his perfor­mances as Party orator as
‘masterful’ and note time and again that he was received with
‘tumultuous applause.’ Ernst Hanfstaengl, a sophisticated
Har­vard graduate, found Hitler ‘absolutely irresistible … a
master of the spoken word.’ Konrad Heiden, then a univer­sity
student and political opponent of Hitler who had heard him
dozens of times, [said]: ‘Suddenly this man, who has been
awkwardly standing around… begins to speak, filling the room
with his voice, suppressing interruptions or contradictions by
his domineering manner, spreading cold shivers among
those present by the savagery of his declaration, lifting
every subject of conver­sation into the light of history … the
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listener is filled with awe and feels that a new phe­nomenon
has entered the room. This thunder­ing demon was
not there before; this is not the same timid man with the
contracted shoul­ders. He is capable of this transfor­mation in a
personal interview and facing an audience of half a million.’
“Other opponents observed the same phenomenon: a limp,
little man changed into a force of overwhelm­ing
power, the stream of speech stiffening him ‘like a stream
of water stiffens a hose’” (ibid., pp. 240-241).
Mr. Waite says that as a youth, Hitler ate two pounds of
chocolates a day. He also generally followed a vegetarian diet.
Hitler was physically weak throughout his life. But during his
speeches, he spoke with awesome power.
After a speech at the Reichstag, an English observer, Major
Francis Yeats-Brown, said this about Hitler: “During the
rhetorical passages his voice mounted to the pitch of delirium:
he was a man transformed and possessed. We were in the
presence of a mira­cle” (Toland, op. cit., p. 598). It was a
supernatural miracle!
Hitler was a “possessed” man. These events can only be
interpreted by God. Writers usually attribute this power to
Hitler the man. But they are dead wrong. That was power
beyond the human realm.
Observers saw his “domineering manner” and noticed a
“new phenom­enon has entered the room.” “This thundering
demon was not there before”! He was “possessed,” and it
was a “miracle.” A “limp, little man changed into a force of
overwhelming power”!
Men saw the effect but didn’t understand the cause. They should
have. All they had to do was believe God and His Word.
Soon another man is going to appear on the scene with
power even greater than Hitler’s. He will be pos­sessed by a
Satan full of wrath, a devil who knows he has but a short time
before Christ returns (Revelation 12:12). What Hitler did was
mild com­pared to what this man will do.
“And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the
transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce coun­tenance,
and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up” (Daniel
8:23). He will have a “fierce counte­nance” and compelling,
gripping, frightening, hypnotic eyes!
“And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:
and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise,
and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people” (verse 24).
He has a fearful power, but it is “not by his own power.” It is
Satan’s power! And Satan is filled with his worst wrath ever!
He is going to “destroy wonder­f ully,” or mightily. God’s
holy people—spiritual Jews—are his main target.
But what a glorious ending this black night has. “And through
his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he
shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy
many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but
he shall be broken without hand” (verse 25). He appears to want
peace. But it is only a deceit to suddenly destroy his lovers.
Jesus Christ is going to destroy this evil empire forever.
This thundering demon was not there before.
A limp, little man changed into a force of overwhelming power…
It’s time for men to awaken out of
sleep and know for certain what is
coming! That time is almost here.
Supernatural Power
Clearly, Hitler’s power was beyond
the human realm. But was his mes-
sage from the Creator God? No,
it was a religious mes­s age from
another god—the god of this world.
Herbert W. Arm­strong said Satan is a
thousand times more power­ful than
we are. But men refuse to even grasp
Satan’s frightening power.
If they can’t learn by words, they
are about to learn by becom­ing vic­
tims—like the extermina­tion camp
victims of World War ii!
Christ only prophesied of
two great churches in the book
of Revelation—His Church and
Satan’s church, which rides the seven
beasts of the Holy Roman Empire.
Everything revolves around these
two churches (see Revelation 12
in particular). God makes it very
simple, while Satan complicates it
and confuses deceived men. And yet
the world is almost totally ignorant
of both churches, to their own shame
and terrible suffering!
Here is what Hitler said on March
4, 1938, after he had forcefully annexed
Austria to the German Reich: “Provi­
dence has charged me with a mission
to reunite the German peoples … with a mission to restore my
homeland to the German Reich. I have believed in this mission.
I have lived for it, and I believe I have now fulfilled it.”
Hitler believed that God led him to force Austria into the
Third Reich. The world watched and did nothing. Many Jews
were so fearful that they com­mitted suicide before the German
army even arrived in Austria. And of course, hundreds more
were slaughtered after the army entered.
Hitler was led to commit this bloody sacrifice not by the
Creator God, but by the evil god of this world. All of this
was done in the name of religion. This is where the great
deceit lies!
When will we come to know the god of this world? Must
we all become victims before we heed the warning?
Stirring the Whole Nation
Through deceit, the world is kept in ignorance. This makes
Satan’s job very easy to accomplish. Still, only God can save
us, as he saved the U.S. and Britain in World War ii. But
there is no Winston Churchill being
prepared to warn us this time.
Today the Germans and the
Euro­p ean Union are once again
focusing the people’s minds on the
Holy Roman Empire. European
Parliamen­tarian Otto von Hapsburg
said, “The [European] Com­munity
is living largely by the heritage of
the Holy Roman Em­pire, though
the great majority of the people who
live by it don’t know by what heritage
they live.”
Notice, “the great majority”
don’t know they are even now
living by the heritage of the
Holy Roman Empire! That is because
it has been “under­ground”—just as
God prophe­sied. But that is changing
fast as the empire grows in power.
The people need a more specific
focus to stir their imagi­nations. And
they are getting just that. Mr. Habs­
burg, a descendant of the Habsburg
Dynasty which ruled the Holy Roman
Empire for 400 years, talked about
a crown in a museum in Vienna,
Austria, which sym­bolizes a great deal
to the Germans. He said, “We possess
a European symbol which belongs
to all nations of Europe equally;
this is the crown of the Holy
Roman Empire, which embodies
the tradi­tion of Charle­magne.”
Charle­magne was crowned emperor of
the Holy Roman Empire in 800 a.d.—the First Reich. Can we
see where Satan is taking them? It’s not necessarily a matter
of where they want to go, it’s where Satan is leading them!
Mr. Habsburg failed to mention that the Holy Roman
Empire also embodied the tradition of Mussolini and Adolf
Hitler—leader of the Third Reich.
Europe is once again becoming mesmerized by the crown
of Charle­magne—just as Hitler was.
Pope John Paul ii said he wanted “to save Europe and the
world from the final catastrophe”—the nuclear annihila-
tion of every human being. But Satan is actually going to
use the Roman Empire to plunge the world into a nuclear
holocaust!
That empire has always been used as a tool of great
destruction. The end-time resurrection will be the most
destructive ever—by far!
Only biblical Israel has a history with God. We are without
excuse! We are about to be punished for our rebelli­ous
attitude—by our “lovers.”
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 Hitler provided only a small preview of the coming political
beast that will initiate a nuclear holocaust.
That power will cause the U.S. and Britain to suffer more
than any people ever have on this Earth! What an incredible
price we must pay for our ignorance and rebellion!
Konrad Heiden wrote an intro­duction for an English
translation of Mein Kampf. In it he made these statements:
“Mein Kampf made Hitler rich. It became a best-seller second
only to the Bible. The book may well be called a kind of
satanic Bible …. The principle that men are not equal is
the theoretical purpose of Mein Kampf ….
“That such a man could go so far toward realizing his
ambitions, and—above all—could find millions of willing
tools and helpers; that is a phenomenon the world will ponder
for centuries to come.”
Actually, people will not ponder this for centuries. Soon they
are going to be taught the truth and understand the Holy Roman
Empire. The satanic bibles and diabolical em­pires are about
to be destroyed forever. Unfortunately, that will happen after
many millions of people are killed by the seventh head.
The Spirit of Charlemagne
What is happening in the Euro­pean superstate is a mystery
to most of the world. But that mystery is begin­ning to be
removed. Bernard Connolly wrote a bombshell book in 1995
entitled The Rotten Heart of Europe. For years he served at
the heart of the Exchange Rate Mechanism for the European
Union (EU). He headed the commission unit responsi­ble for
monitoring and servicing the system. He labels the European
superstate as rotten. Why so?
“It is the battle for control of the European superstate,” Mr.
Connolly wrote, “in which French technocrats confront German
federalists, both sides claiming to fight under the banner of
Charlemagne. The ‘collateral damage’ from this battle lies
mainly in the future, but it could be ghastly” (p. xvi).
Who is going to get control of this great superstate? The
battle can be narrowed down to two nations—France and
Germany. Do knowledge­able people really doubt who will
win this battle? The nation that controls the money will
reign supreme.
“Across the Rhine, successive German governments
have, in their pursuit of a ‘European’ cloak for Ger­man
ambitions, been prepared to accept an apparent cession of
national monetary authority—as long as the new European
monetary authority looks, sounds, smells and acts exactly as
the German monetary authority now does” (ibid., p. 4).
The EU system has already been called a Trojan horse. Mr.
Connolly says it is a “cloak for German ambi­tions.”
Just what are those ambitions?
“The Bundesbank began to use this opportunity to the full,
overturning its obligation to ‘support the general economic
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policy of the government.’ In 1966, it deliber­ately engineered a
recession that dethroned the chancellor, Ludwig Erhard, who,
as finance minister, had overridden Bundesbank objections
to [Deutschmark] revaluation in 1961. The Bundesbank
president of the time, Karl Blessing, commented with evident
satisfaction that ‘we had to use brute force to put things
in order’—a formula not very different from those used by
leaders of the military in Third World countries who summarily
depose an uppity civilian leader before returning to barracks.
It did not go unnoticed that the man who replaced Erhard,
Georg Kiesinger, was, like many prominent figures in
the Bundesbank at that time, a former Nazi Party
member, however much or little significance that fact may
have” (ibid., p. 9).
Here he discusses just one German institution. In 1966 the
Bundesbank had “many prominent figures” who were
Nazis! Does this give us some idea of where the European
superstate is headed? Are we afraid to face this book’s truth
of what is happening in Germany and Europe? Do we fear
to face Bible prophecy?
The Nazis know how “to use brute force to put things in
order”! And not just in the finance system.
We are all aware of Hitler’s Third Reich. Mr. Connolly labels
the empire of Charlemagne as the First Reich.
Most of the EU leaders are working to “recreate the empire of
Charle­magne. It was no coincidence that the Belgian government
housed the offices and meeting rooms of the EU Council of
Ministers in the Charlemagne build­ing in Brussels.
“It was no coincidence, either, that Giscard and Schmidt
agreed to accept the Belgian compromise proposal at a
bilateral summit in September 1978 at Aachen, principal
seat and burial place of Charlemagne. The symbolism was
heavily underlined in both France and Germany; the two
leaders paid a special visit to the throne of Charlemagne and
a special service was held in the cathe­dral; at the end of the
summit, Giscard remarked that: ‘Perhaps when we discussed
monetary problems, the spirit of Charlemagne brooded over
us’” (ibid., p. 17).
The spirit of Charlemagne has returned. This past king
who ruled the First Reich had to wade through a “sea of blood”
to achieve his goal of ruling Europe.
The big question remains unan­swered. “In the new empire
of Charle­magne, who would play Charle­magne? Exactly
the same question was implicit, and left un­a nswered, at
Maastricht” (ibid.).
Soon the world will know who the modern Charle­magne is to
be. You can be sure he will have Germany’s stamp of approval.
His actions will shock the world far more than the original
Charle­magne. He will lead the world into the greatest “sea of
blood” that humanity has ever seen or even dreamed about!
Whether we realize it or not, the Fourth Reich has arrived.
Chapter five
Germany
in
Prophecy
M
ost people have ignored the
fact that Herbert W. Arm­strong
warned the world that Germany
would rise again. Only a very few
listened.
Mr. Armstrong said Ger­man
in­dustry and the German people's will power and deter­
mination to work, produce and organ­ize was the very heart
and lifeblood of all Europe. He said the prostrate body of
Europe could not come back with­out the leadership of a
revived and vigorous Germany.
The world is witnessing history repeat itself one more
time. Soon, it will all be over. Only the returning Jesus
Christ will be able to put a stop to it.
The book of Nahum is an end-time prophecy about
Germany. Nahum 3:16-17 talks about this illusive power.
“Thou hast mul­tiplied thy merchants above the stars of
heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away. Thy
crowned are as the locusts [Win­ston Churchill even called
the Germans and their military machine
‘the locusts’], and thy cap­tains as the
great grass­hoppers, which camp in the
hedges in the cold day, but when the sun
ariseth they flee away, and their place is
not known where they are.”
After World War ii, the Nazis just
went underground and disap­peared like
grasshoppers in winter­time. Suddenly,
they were gone. But just as suddenly,
they have burst back on the world scene.
That’s exactly the way God foretold it was
going to happen in this end time.
God’s Word is true! That is why
Mr. Arm­s trong could preach with
such absolute authority about the
cer­tainty and terrible conse­quences of
Germany rising again—because the
Bible said so.
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Fierceness in Germany
Let’s examine some of the proph­ecies Mr. Armstrong covered
to come to his startlingly accurate predictions about Germany
in the end time. God is raising up the Germans to correct
an evil Israel, comprised of nations who have had a history
with God. They have failed God. Now God is going to punish
them for this most heinous of all sins.
In verse 6 of Habakkuk 1, God says, “For, lo, I raise up the
Chal­deans, that bitter and hasty nation….” The Chaldeans
are an ancient people of Babylon. Ancient Baby­lon and the
Chaldeans have passed from the world scene. But the old
Babylonian religion remains.
“Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of
Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of
the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and
delicate” (Isaiah 47:1). Who is Babylon today? Which religion
in this world has a throne today?
“Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter
of the Chal­deans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady
of kingdoms. I was wroth with my peo­ple, I have polluted
mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou
didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very
heavily laid thy yoke” (verses 5-6). A woman or “lady” in
Bible prophecy refers to a church. As described in Chapter 3, a
great false church either dominates or heavily influences the
seven resurrections of the “Holy” Roman Empire (Revelation
17:5-6). This empire is now forming in Europe for the seventh
and final time. Revelation 17:12 says it will be a ten-nation
European combine. And Germany, ancient Assyria, will be
the dominant player in this Euroforce.
God calls this German-led war machine “bitter and hasty”
in Habakkuk 1—a very good descrip­tion. They are full of
bitterness, complete with lightning-fast blitzkrieg war­fare.
God says they are a “nation which shall march through the
breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not
theirs” (Habakkuk 1:6). God says He is going to “raise up the
Chal­deans.” Everything will revolve around Ger­many. The
other coun­tries are just along for the ride.
In verse 7, God gives us more understanding of these
fierce, warlike people. “They are terrible and dreadful: their
judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.” The
Jerusalem Bible renders verse 7, “A people feared and dreaded,
from their might proceeds their right, their great­ness.” If you
know anything about history, you know about whom God
is talking. The German people are warriors whose strength
gives them the right to do anything they want, any­time they
want.
Verse 11: “Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass
over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.” The
mind of this man who leads this political beast will change
because his god, Satan, is going to heavily influence him, if
not possess him. The power of Satan will be behind a
revived and terrifying Nazi Ger­many!
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An unholy union
“And I saw a woman sit upon
a scarlet coloured beast…”
One of the greatest miracles this world has produced in our
time is the resurrection of Ger­many: the rise of Germany from
rubble to the greatest power in Europe—and soon to be the
greatest power in the world! It is mind-boggling.
The Beast Power
In Revelation 17:1-3, the angel says to John, “Come hither;
I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that
sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth
have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth
have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication …
and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of
names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.”
God says a wondrous beast shall arise which will affect all
inhabitants of the Earth.
Continuing in verse 7: “And the angel said unto me,
Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of
the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the
seven heads and ten horns.” God revealed to Mr. Arm­strong,
through these verses in Revela­tion 17 and other scriptures, that
a great political beast is rising in Europe which will be joined
by a great Euro­pean religious beast in an unholy alliance to
conquer the world. Religion is going to emotion­a lly stir the
Euro­peans. And then a megalo­maniac will come on the scene
to stir up the people as only someone like Hitler could.
Verse 8 of Revelation 17 says, “The beast that thou sawest
was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit,
and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall
wonder … when they behold the beast that was, and is not,
and yet is.”
The word translated “bottomless pit” or abyss in verse 8
actually means under­ground. That’s where the Nazis have
been since before the end of World War ii.
The so-called Holy Roman Empire is going to rise to power
one final time. In Revelation 17:9-12, it says, “And here is the
mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains,
on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five
are fallen and one is”—that’s when Mr. Arm­strong came on the
scene and began to understand all of these prophecies—“and
the other is not yet come”—but it is rising now—“and when
he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that
was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and
goeth into perdition. And the ten horns which thou sawest are
ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive
power as kings one hour with the beast.”
This unholy union won’t last long, but “these have one
mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast”
(verse 13). Their entire existence will revolve around
doing what Satan commands them to do. And it will
be dreadful! “For then shall be great tribulation, such as
was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor
ever shall be” (Matthew 24:21).
In Revelation 18:3, God tells us more about this great
satanic system called Babylon. “For all nations have drunk

of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings
of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the
merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance
of her delicacies.”
And this great religious power—this woman on the
beast—what will she do with her power? Verses 12 and 13 say
she will make merchan­dise of “slaves, and souls of men.”
In Isaiah 10:5, God says, “O Assyr­ian [the modern Germans],
the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine
indignation.” Notice God talks about the Assyr­ian, not the ten
nations. Just the one powerful nation. It is the Germans that
are the big threat. God is using them for a special purpose.
God says, “I will send him against an hypo­critical nation,
and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge,
to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down
like the mire of the streets” (verse 6). God says the Germans
are a tool in His hands. They tread humans down “like the
mire of the streets.”
Verse 7: “Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart
think so ….” Even the soon-coming leader of the German-led
beast power will not think he would ever destroy or cut off
nations. But that’s what the rest of the verse says: “… but it
is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.” As it
says in Habakkuk 1:11, his mind will change.
Many nations have been destroyed by the power of the
Germans. Remember Leonard Catrell’s statement: “In all
the annals of human conquest, it is difficult to find any
people more dedicated to bloodshed and slaughter than the
Assyrians. Their ferocity and cruelty have few parallels save
in modern times”—meaning Germany.
The greatest war machine in all of history was Assyria. They
were great conquerors. They had superior wea­pons and superior
organi­zation. And they are back on the world scene today!
Germany in Prophecy
By the time Mr. Armstrong came on the scene, much of
Daniel’s prophecy had become history. How­ever, there is
a crucial part of this prophecy yet unfulfilled—which will
happen soon!
In Daniel 8:23, God says, “And in the latter time of their
king­dom”—an end-time Roman Empire—“when the transgres-
sors are come to the full, a king of fierce counte­nance, and
understanding dark sen­tences, shall stand up.” This is the political
beast which is about to rise up and astound the world!
For a while, Germany and the European Union are going to
have a great burst of econom­ic growth as a benefit of their political
union. Then, this colossal superstate, with its great military
power, will turn on Israel. God says it’s going to happen.
Continuing in Daniel 8:24: “And his power shall be mighty,
but not by his own power.” There are nine other nations in the
beast alliance besides Germany, but the real power behind the
beast is Satan (Revelation 13:4)—that’s what “not by his own
power” means. There will be ten nations or groups of nations,
and this German leader, a “king of fierce counte­nance,” will
control them all.
Verse 24 continues, “And he shall destroy won­derfully….”
That means nuclear destruction! Germany is going to
obtain nuclear missiles and bombs and a mighty army. They
will “destroy wonderfully” many millions of people!
Whole cities will be laid waste. Yet God prom­ises protection
to His faith­ful people. We are going to need pro­tection. What
will happen to those who scoff at God’s protection? Verse
24 shows their fate: “He shall destroy wonderfully, and shall
prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the
holy people.”
In verse 25, we see the fate of mankind at the hands of this
“king of fierce countenance.” “And through his policy also he
shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify
himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many….”
Or, as the New English Bible translates that phrase, “he shall
conjure up great plans and, when they least expect it, work
havoc on many.” Through masterful, satanic deceit, this beast
power will destroy and wreak havoc on millions!
Worst of the Heathen
Why does God allow this terrible beast power to rise and
destroy? Ezekiel 7 tells us God allows it to punish His people.
Read verses 2-3.
Why must God do this? Verse 23: “Make a chain: for the
land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.”
Who is this talking about? Read your newspaper headlines.
This violence epidem­ic is in the United States most of all.
The cities are full of violence. God is going to punish the
modern-day Israelites because our lands are full of violence
and our nations still will not turn to God.
Here is what God will do. “Wherefore I will bring the
worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses:
I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their
holy places shall be defiled” (verse 24). When the “worst of
the heathen” get into power, they do what they have always
done. Only this time, God says they’re going to wreak worse
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havoc, death and destruction than has ever occurred in man’s
history (Ezekiel 5:9).
The Germans have many wonder­f ul charac­teristics. But
when Satan leads them into war, they become brutal!
Sometimes we need to be remind­ed of how horrible man
can be toward fellowman. There is probably no greater example
of inhumanity than the Ger­mans in World War ii. But how
much have we forgotten? Have we complete­ly shut it out of
our minds? Do we think it won’t happen again? God says it’s
going to happen far worse than ever before.
We need to remind ourselves of what hap­pened in the
Have We Forgotten?
The follow­ing are some graphic and lamen­table excerpts
from Shoah, An Oral History of the Holo­caust, by Claude
Lanzmann.
When we first opened the graves, we couldn’t help it, we
all burst out sobbing, but the Ger­mans almost beat us to
death. We had to work at a killing pace for two days, beaten
all the time, and with no tools. The Germans even forbade us
to use the words “corpse” or “vic­tim.” The dead were blocks
of wood, dung, with abso­lutely no importance. Anyone who
said “corpse” or “victim” was beaten. The Germans made us
refer to the bodies as Figuren, that is, as puppets, as dolls,
or as Schmattes, which means “rags.”
The head of the Vilna Gestapo told us there are 90,000
people lying there and absolutely no trace must be left of
them ….
At that time we started working in that place that they
called Treblinka. Still I couldn’t believe what had happened
over there on the other side of the gate, where the people went
in, everything disap­peared, and everything got quiet. But in
a minute we find out, when we start to ask the people who
worked here before us what had happened to the others, they
said: “Well, what do you mean, what happened? Don’t you
know that? They’re all gassed, all killed.” It was im­possible
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German concen­tration camps during those ugly times of
modern “civilization.” The phrase “worst of the heathen”
applies to Germany today.
Crisis at the End
Let’s look at a prophecy yet to be fulfilled which shows that
events we see developing today are leading to the crisis at
the end of this age. “And at the time of the end shall the king
of the south [a Middle Eastern power] push at him; and the
king of the north [the German-led European Union] shall
to say any­thing—we were just like stones. We
couldn’t ask what had happened to the wife, to
the kid. “What do you mean—wife, kid? Nobody
is anymore!” …
So that while 5,000 Jews arrived in Treblinka, 3,000 were
dead in the cars. They had slashed their wrists or just died.
The ones we unloaded were half dead and half mad. In the
other trains from Kielce [Poland] and elsewhere, at least half
were dead. We stacked them, here, here and here. Thous­ands
of people piled one on top of another on the ramp. Stacked
like wood. In addition, other Jews still alive, waited there for
two days: the small gas chambers could no longer handle the
load. They functioned day and night in that period.
More people kept coming, always more, whom we hadn’t
the facilities to kill. The brass was in a rush to clean out the
Warsaw ghetto. The gas chambers couldn’t handle the load.
The small gas chambers. The Jews had to wait their turn for
a day, two days, three days. They fore­saw what was coming.
They may not have been certain, but many knew. There were
Jewish women who slashed their daughters’ wrists at night,
then cut their own. Others poisoned them­selves ….
The corpses lying there were cleared away. There was the
period of the old gas chambers. Because there were so many
dead that they couldn’t be gotten rid of, the bodies piled up
around the gas chambers and stayed there for days. Under
this pile of bodies was a cesspool three inches deep, full of
blood and worms and dung. No one wanted to clean it out.
The Jews preferred to be shot rather than work there.
come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with
horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the
countries, and shall overflow and pass over” (Daniel 11:40).
The Germans are going to get control of the Middle East.
Verse 41: “He [king of the north] shall enter also into the
glorious land [Jerusalem and the Promised Land], and many
countries shall be over­t hrown .…”
The events in the Middle East are going to lead to seriously
escalating problems. They are going to trigger World War iii.
The Bible says so. The king of the north is almost in place for
this global tragedy. The king of the south is virtually there as
well—and they have the oil. They’re just not fully aware yet
of how much power that oil gives them over Europe.
Germany, which has virtually no oil, is waiting for an
opportunity to take control of the Middle East. They have planned
this for years. The need for oil was the trigger that caused Japan
to attack Pearl Harbor and start World War ii in the Pacific. That
same trigger could be the main reason for the clash between
the king of the north and the king of the south.
Control of Jerusalem could also lead to war. Both the
Catholics and Muslims desperately want Jerusalem.
Punishment and Salvation
But the Assyrians are going to be humbled. God is going to
punish Assyria, just like He will punish Israel and His Church.
All these end-time proph­ecies show the same end result for
Ger­many: destruction!
Germany’s terrible fate is shown in Isaiah 13:17-19. God
will crush the German war machine by sending Asiatic
hordes against them!
In Isaiah 10:12-13, God says, “Wherefore it shall come to
pass, that when the Lord hath per­formed his whole work upon
Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the
stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high
looks. For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done
it, and by my wisdom….” The ego of the Germans will lead
them to their own destruction. Isn’t it amazing how humans
always want to take credit for what God has done?
In Nahum 3:18-19, God says, “Thy shepherds slumber, O
king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people
is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: and
all that hear the [news] of thee shall clap the hands over thee:
for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?”
History proves that the wick­edness of the Germans has passed
on the world continually.
Daniel 8:25 gives us the final outcome of the beast pow­er,
at the time of the glorious return of Christ: “And he [the beast
power] shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he
shall be broken without hand.” Jesus Christ is going to break them
with­out physical hands—super­natural intervention by God!
This arrogant beast power is going to fight against Jesus
Christ and will be crushed and destroyed! The good news
is that Jesus Christ is about ready to return to this Earth in all
power and glory! He is going to smash that European combine
that is rising up before our eyes in great strength.
Yes, thankfully, there is good news. When the glorified
Jesus Christ returns, “These [allies of the beast] shall make
war with the Lamb, and the lamb shall over­come them:
for He is Lord of lords, and King of kings…” (Revelation 17:14).
In the end, God will restore peace to mankind (Zechariah
10:6, 10-11).
God is going to bring Germany and the Holy Roman Empire
down after that ancient war machine has brought the world
down. But then God raises it all back up again—His way—with
His govern­ment, His law and His right­eousness. The Germans
are an excep­tionally talented people who are going to be a very
great people in the World Tomorrow. God just needs to channel
that talent in the right direction. Then they will serve God with
the same zeal they have un­k nowingly served Satan all these
years. All will be to the glory of God the Father.
What Can We Do?
It’s obvious that Satan is going to take advantage of all the
hatred smoldering in Europe against the United States and
England. He is going to stir all that hatred into a nuclear
holocaust—a flaming fire that we can hardly even imagine.
We need to be prepared for it.
In Zephaniah 2:1-3, it says, “Gather your­selves together,
yea, gather together, O nation not desired [God’s faithful
people]; Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass
as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon
you, before the day of the Lord’s anger come upon you. Seek
ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought
his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye
shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger.” God is saying
that if His people are loyal to what they have learned from
Him, they can be hidden from the horrors that are soon to
come upon this Earth!
What is the key to being protect­ed? We must seek God
before the Tribulation strikes. That is the formula for escape.
Seek God now! “Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call
ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return
unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to
our God, for he will abundantly pardon” (Isaiah 55:6-7).
The history of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire
reveals where the events in Europe today are leading. More
importantly, God’s prophecies give us an advance preview
of what is about to occur in Europe—and how it will affect
the whole world. What can you do before it is too late? Seek
God while He may be found.
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Milton, ON L9T 4Y9

Caribbean
P.O. Box 2237
Chaguanas, Trinidad, W.I.

Britain, Europe,
Middle East, india
and sri lanka
P.O. Box 9000
Daventry, NN11 1AJ
England

Africa
P.O. Box 2969
Durbanville
7551, South Africa

Australia
and the Pacific Isles
P.O. Box 6626
Upper Mount Gravatt
QLD 4122, Australia

New Zealand
P.O. Box 38-424
Howick, Auckland, 1730

Philippines
P.O. Box 1372
Q.C. Central Post Office
Quezon City, Metro Manila 1100

Latin America
Attn: Spanish Department
P.O. Box 3700
Edmond, OK 73083
United States of America

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